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

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

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

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

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.

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

Several candidates made a connection between wake boats and bacteria blooms during a candidates event held Saturday at Freedom Town Hall.

(d) Recall on RNA viral datasets: RNA phages dataset (left) and marine water RNA virome dataset (right). where the metagenomics dataset contains sequences from 82 eukaryotes, 365 prokaryotes, and ...

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 ...

A study identifies nearly 23,000 auxiliary metabolic genes (AMGs) that viruses have "stolen" from marine microbes, impacting ...

How did viruses evolve? Are they a streamlined form of something that existed long ago, or an ultimate culmination of smaller genetic elements joined together? Aa Aa Aa The evolutionary history of ...