Microbes may be miniscule, but they have a massive impact on Earth and its habitability. They are uniquely different from animals, plants, and other eukaryotic organisms in that they can gain energy ...

Researchers now reveal that nature's storage solution first evolved in ancient microbes living on Earth between one and two billion years ago. In almost every human cell, two metres-long DNA has to ...

Researchers have utilized ultrastructure expansion microscopy to reveal more about the cytoskeletal characteristics of the ...

The molecular remains of a microbe called protosterol biota appeared within the Barney Creek Formation in Australia’s Northern Territory — and those traces could hold information on the origin of ...

Plankton are the invisible engines of life on Earth, producing much of the planet's oxygen and forming the foundation of the ...

The gastrointestinal tract is home to trillions of microorganisms which exist in symbiosis with their eukaryotic host. These microbes interact with their ...