What do a frog, a filamentous fungus, and a water flea have in common? They are all model organisms for biomedical research. This aptly named site through the NIH brings all model organisms into the ...

Multicellular organisms (animals, plants, humans) all have the ability to methylate the cytosine base in their DNA. This ...

Japan's hot springs reveal how Earth's organisms survived the 'Great Oxidation Event' 2.3 billion years ago: Study A team from the Earth-Life Science Institute in Tokyo analyzed certain hot springs in ...

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Giving Noah Hawley the keys to the Xenomorph kingdom is a quick way to grab anyone’s attention. That said, the Alien: Earth trailers haven’t shown an awful lot – apart from the fact that the ...

Groundbreaking fossils unearthed in China suggest that multicellular organisms arose earlier than scientists previously thought. The fossils, of what may be an ancient type of photosynthetic alga, are ...

Living things evolve to fit in their environment. At UC San Diego they’re speeding up the process to create organisms that do some important jobs for us. KPBS Sci-tech reporter Thomas Fudge has more.