In a groundbreaking discovery, Canadian researchers have identified a new type of microscopic organism, hemimastigotes, which ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Imagine the tree of life. The tip of every branch represents ... What we think this single-celled organism may have looked like, when it lived and why a recent study suggests it could be older ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. What if scientists could take cells from both living and dead organisms and turn them ...

But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies ...

An entirely new organism has been created by combining living ... detail a method to achieving this state that is separate from life and death, which they believe will challenge many scientists ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its ... The findings call into question what defines life and death, and open up a new area of medicine. From our morning news briefing to ...

“Mirror life”—a synthetic organism, mirror-reversed on the molecular level from natural life—sounds like an impossibility. And so far, it is—even the simplest mirror bacterium would be dramatically ...

A particularly useful model organism is Drosophila melanogaster ... One of the main advantages is its short life cycle, which allows a large quantity of flies to be produced within a relatively ...

Over the past several years, scientists have repeatedly demonstrated that the cells of various organisms can be repurposed ... fit into the categories of life and death. "The third state ...