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 ...

This coexistence laid the foundation for mitochondria and thus the cells of plants, animals, and fungi. What is still poorly ...

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.

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

Scientists have previously discovered that white noise can improve the growth rate of some microbes, including gray mold and ...

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 ...

The word "fungus" may inspire visions of an unwanted growth under your nail or maybe even of a pizza topping before thoughts ...