The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth's ...

For life to evolve on Earth, a bunch of complex organic molecules had to evolve a way to assemble into cells. So how did ...

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed.

Oliverio and fellow Syracuse microbiologist Beryl Rappaport discovered the organism at Lassen Volcanic National Park in ...

Complex life may have started its rise in Earth’s oxygen-free oceans nearly a billion years earlier than anyone imagined.

A large international team has created a strain of yeast in which half of the 16 chromosomes are synthetic ones that have been redesigned and created from scratch, in a major step towards creating the ...

An international study led by the University of Basel has discovered that nuclear pore complexes—tiny gateways in the nuclear ...

The nuclear pore complex (NPC) controls what moves in and out of the cell nucleus. Scientists have long debated how its ...

The human brain contains nearly 86 billion neurons, constantly exchanging messages like an immense social media network, but neurons do not work alone – glial cells, neurotransmitters, receptors, and ...

Single-cell sequencing provides unprecedented detail into cell-to-cell variability, uncovering key biological mechanisms in ...