Scientists searching for microbe fossils on Mars have a better idea of what to look for thanks to gypsum that formed when the ...

While prokaryotic cells do not have membrane-bound structures, they do have distinct cellular regions (Figure 1). In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive ...

Furthermore, we investigated the major environmental factors influencing the prokaryotic community structure and predicted potential functional profiles. The sequence database established in this ...

Analyzing 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences allows researchers to elucidate the prokaryotic composition of an environment. In recent years, third-generation sequencing technology has provided ...

We often forget how wonderful it is that life exists, and what a special and unique phenomenon it is. As far as we know, ours ...

The "metagenomic 'dark matter' enzyme" breaks cellulose to help other enzymes turn it into sugar, which is crucial for ...

Cells are constantly on the move, whether in a developing embryo or metastatic cancer. But how do cells adapt to the new ...

Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...