Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the ...

In a deft experiment, biologists have recreated a system that could have birthed essential cell features such as mitochondria ...

Long ago, bacteria entered other cells and stayed. This coexistence laid the foundation for mitochondria and thus the cells ...

Long ago, bacteria entered other cells and stayed. This coexistence laid the foundation for mitochondria and thus the cells ...

A study explores how bacteria can establish endosymbiotic relationships with fungi. Researchers injected E. coli and ...

An organism as a tenant in another -- in biology, this often works quite well. Researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish itself.

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system—even between ...

United Kingdom 2 Institute for Plant Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain A precision inoculation method was developed to enable the investigation of local plant ...

Can organisms without a brain still show signs of intelligence? Researchers at Tohoku University and Nagaoka College had this ...