All modern multicellular life — all life that any of us regularly see — is made of cells with a knack for ...

Between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, earthly life was in the doldrums. During this period, called the "boring ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...

In a new study, Arizona State University researcher Michael Lynch explores the substantial energy demands required to maintain and evolve multicellular life. The study, using the water flea Daphnia as ...

The strange creature—which bears a question-mark shape on its body—roved about like a prehistoric Roomba, researchers said.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology, Germany, have discovered a conserved developmental pattern known as the ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea can become multicellular when compressed, highlighting the role of physical forces in evolution ...

The classic question, “What came first, the egg or the chicken?” has intrigued philosophers and scientists for centuries. A ...

Chia seed recall as FDA issues highest risk level after salmonella ... "But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms ...

For all its pervasiveness and the efforts to study it, cancer is still somewhat of a mystery. Why do some animals get it at a ...

The course explores basic principles of biology with a focus on those features shared by all living organisms and seen through the ... matter in a diversity of biological systems at all levels of ...

The A1C level test can give false or inaccurate results in some people. Your A1C level can be falsely elevated due to certain medications or health conditions like anemia, among other reasons.