In a recent study, researchers gained new insight into the lives of bacteria that survive by grouping together as if they ...

Bacteria consist of a single cell. They do not have bones and are not like big animals that leave clear signs in the ...

Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have ...

Researchers found that cooperative fluid dynamics between single-celled organisms may have driven the evolution of ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

derived from the Greek word for bacteria-eaters, or in shortened form, “phages.” Scientists have sought to learn how the ...

An electron microscopy images of multicellular magnetotactic bacteria that featured on the covers of the 2022 edition of The ...

Scientists say they have shed new light on how bacteria protect themselves from certain phage invaders -- by seizing genetic material from weakened, dormant phages and using it to 'vaccinate' ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

Discover the evolution of bacteria through machine learning, DNA comparisons, and the Great Oxidation Event 2.4 billion years ...

In a lab at Queen Mary University of London, a mouse was born whose existence defied conventional biology. It carried within ...