OK, so bacteria can be more socially complex than we thought. At least we can count on them being only single-celled. Or can we? When food is scarce, slime bacteria come together to form fruiting ...
Memory is foundational to our human experience. By tracking and storing our experiences, it helps us navigate the world and ...
Sea anemones distinguish helpful bacteria from harmful invaders without antibodies. Specialized cell structures engulf and ...
For decades, textbooks and public-health campaigns repeated a striking claim: bacterial cells in the human body outnumber human cells by a factor of ten to one. That figure, repeated so often it ...
MIT scientists have discovered that part of these microorganisms' energy efficiency depends on invisible signals embedded ...
A freak event created the ancestor of all multicellular life on Earth. Without this unconventional genesis, we might never have become more than bacteria Life is what you make of it. For the first ...
New research has uncovered an extraordinary mechanism of cell division in Corynebacterium matruchotii, one of the most common bacteria living in dental plaque. The filamentous bacterium doesn't just ...
Memory is foundational to our human experience. By tracking and storing our experiences, it helps us navigate the world and is deeply intertwined with consciousness, allowing us to recall the moments ...