The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), the theoretical single organism from which all life on Earth descends, is now ...

While the Cambrian Explosion kickstarted complex life in a major way some 530 million years, the true timeline of life on ...

An organism suitable for studying a specific trait, disease, or phenomenon, due to its short generation time, characterized genome, or similarity to humans; examples are a fly, fish, rodent or pig ...

La Trobe University researchers have been studying the novel bacterium Mycosynbacter amalyticus —dubbed "microbial dark ...

During the early years of the twentieth century, fruit flies were the model organism of choice for many genetic researchers, including those who worked in Thomas Hunt Morgan's famous "fly room ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its cells, according to new research. Cells have been shown to continue ...

Captivating footage taken on January 31 in Hong Kong, China, captured the mesmerizing moment an amoeba consuming a ciliate. The video shows the amoeba slowly engulfing the single-celled organism ...

Where there are people, there are mice. This pretty well summarizes the millennia-old relationship between man and mouse. Few species have benefited from humans as much as the house mouse, Mus ...

Cells. Tissues. Organs. Organ systems. And the organism itself. Cells are the building blocks of life. Tissue is made when specialised cells with the same function group together. For example ...

Thomas Hunt Morgan has now been studying flies in his "fly laboratory" at Columbia University for two years. Day after day, the trained geneticist feeds thousands of these insects, a mere three ...

New Age International Inc of Brooklyn, NY is recalling all lots of Daily Veggies brand Enoki Mushroom, 200g, Product of Korea, because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism ...

It's that time of year when finding a spot at your favorite beach is a lot harder to find. It's spring break season! Is there any red tide reported?