Prokaryotes are organisms whose cells lack a nucleus and other organelles. Prokaryotes are divided into two distinct groups: the bacteria and the archaea, which scientists believe have unique ...

Planctomycetes May Yield New Insights into the Eukaryote-Like Cell Biology of a Bacterium Planctomycete cell structure differs from that of all other known prokaryotes. We are not sure yet whether ...

A new method exposes key details of the mechanism behind calcium signaling in prokaryotes for the first time.

The study is published in Science Advances. Researchers at the University of California, Davis and UC Santa Barbara generated a list of prokaryotes with fermentative metabolism from the literature.

Bacteria are amongst the simplest of organisms – they are made of single cells. Their cell structure is simpler than the cells of animals, plants and fungi.

The microbes that cycle nutrients in the ocean don't do the work on their own—the viruses that infect them also influence the ...

The microbes that cycle nutrients in the ocean don't do the work on their own – the viruses that infect them also influence ...

A recent study has uncovered critical details about the association between anaerobic ciliates and methanogenic archaea, a ...

ABOVE: Researchers have identified a nitrogen-fixing organelle known as a nitroplast. Here, it is seen at the opposite end of ...

One flip, and your brunette locks are platinum blond. That's not too far from what happens in some prokaryotes, or single-cell organisms, such as bacteria, that undergo something called inversions.

This useful study by Gao et al identifies Hspa2 as a heterogeneous transcript in the early embryo and proposes a plausible mechanism showing interactions with Carm1. The authors propose that ...