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.

About 4 billion years ago, Earth began to show signs of the conditions that allowed the first cells to take hold and populate ...

So viruses are unlike any living creature in how they reproduce. Even single cell organisms like bacteria can reproduce independently on surfaces outside the body, but viruses can only survive for ...

single living can be empowering, fulfilling, and downright joyful,” she countered. Research published last year found that women enjoy being single more than men because women are more likely to ...

Over time, those single-celled organisms were able to evolve into multicellular life, and eventually into all the living things we ... key genes involved in stem cell formation might have ...

So, where do they all come from? Each one of us starts off as a single cell when an egg and a sperm join together. This then divides by mitosis to form two identical cells, and they just keep on ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.