A light microscopy image shows the marine algae Braarudosphaera bigelowii, which is a potentially large evolutionary step. This algae absorbed a bacterium called UCYN-A and formed a new organelle ...

Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, ...

Now, in a new study published today in Cell, researchers from Prof. Ido Amit's lab at the Weizmann Institute of Science have managed for the first time to develop a method for tracking and measuring ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...

What might be the oldest living thing on Earth lives on the side of a highway in Utah, and many people drive right through it without even noticing. It looks like a forest of aspen trees but is ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

What are Living Modified Organisms (LMOs)? Living Modified Organisms (LMOs) are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using modern biotechnology techniques, such as genetic engineering.

An ecologist from Utah State University is warning one of the world’s largest living things, a colony of genetically identical trees sharing a single root system, is in danger of breaking up into ...

MatPat dives deep into the biological science behind the Time Lords’ most famous power—regeneration. Could a living organism really rewrite its DNA, heal mortal wounds, and transform into an entirely ...

An Inland Empire city has approved a development project 450 feet away from the third oldest known living organism in the world — a sprawling, shrub-like oak tree that is more than 13,000 years old.