Our gut is home to a micro-universe of tiny powerhouses, complete with their own genes and immune and metabolic profiles, ...

Prototaxites are something of a prehistoric mystery. They were the first giant organisms on land, towering over ancient ...

Called 'prototaxites', this lifeform lived on Earth around 410 million years ago, before becoming extinct 360 million years ...

Scientists suggest increasing what is understood about exocytosis could one day inform many fields of applied science.

Researchers studying exquisitely preserved Scottish fossils say Prototaxites represents an entirely extinct eukaryotic lineage - a “new form of life” in the sense that it does not fit into known major ...

Protaxites: The discovery that could change the understanding of life - Scientists have potentially discovered a new ...

Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Researchers have developed an economical random fractional 13C labeling strategy using methanol for eukaryotic membrane proteins expressed in yeast. This method significantly improves spectral ...

Long before forests of tall trees covered the planet, Earth was ruled by something stranger: towering, trunk like organisms ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Scientists first read the human genome, a three-billion-letter biological book, in April 2003. Since then, researchers have steadily advanced the ability to write DNA, moving far beyond single-gene ...