Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

When a cell divides, the genome has to be duplicated, then the two copies separated and one goes to each daughter cell. But ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

Tumours might seem to be discrete entities, but each one is a roiling collection of cells. Instead of looking at the tumour as a whole, individual analysis of its many different cells is providing ...

Two life forms have merged into a single organism for the first time in at least a billion years. Primary endosymbiosis, or two life forms merging into one, has occurred only twice in the history ...