A new estimate of eukaryotic diversity suggests a total of 8.7 million species. So far, scientists have discovered only 1.2 million of them.
A new estimate of eukaryotic diversity suggests a total of 8.7 million species. So far, scientists have discovered only 1.2 million of them.
A new yeast species found in Patagonia appears to be the missing half of the long-used lager yeast.
Fossils discovered in Australian rocks may be the remnants of three and a half billion-year-old microorganisms.
Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed.
Scientists discover that ancestors of the unicellular fungi can synthesize essential biomolecules with only trace levels of O2.
A new microfluidics chip lets researchers analyze the nucleic acids of 300 individual cells simultaneously.
Mothers more likely to have twins have heavier, healthier non-twin babies, possibly explaining why twinning evolved.
Researchers identify new mutations in schizophrenia patients without a family history of the disease.
Researchers use directed evolution to create a bacterial strain that substitutes a synthetic base for thymine.
The Nobel Prize winner who discovered the gene that encodes the major histocompatibility complex passes away at age 90.