Chromosphaera perkinsii is a single-celled species discovered in 2017 in marine sediments around Hawaii. The first signs of its presence on Earth have been dated at over a billion years, well before ...

Now he’s unlocked the final stage of a daring two-decades long research mission aimed at giving life to the first multicellular organism with entirely synthetic DNA. The groundbreaking ...

The study’s first author ... prompting a fresh look at the evolution of life’s complexity. University of Geneva Olivetta, M., et al. (2024) A multicellular developmental program in a close ...

In fact, why and how multicellular life evolved has long puzzled biologists. The first known instance of multicellularity was about 2.5 billion years ago, when marine cells (cyanobacteria ...

In fact, why and how multicellular life evolved has long puzzled biologists. The first known instance of multicellularity was about 2.5 billion years ago, when marine cells (cyanobacteria ...

“So much work on the origins of multicellular life focuses on chemistry,” says ... involved in the filter feeding of stentors. He first focused on a single stentor, from the species Stentor ...

First, contrary to long ... mechanisms behind this profound step in life's evolutionary history on Earth. More information: George A. Schaible et al, Multicellular magnetotactic bacteria are ...

“So much work on the origins of multicellular life focuses on chemistry,” says Shashank Shekhar ... Shekhar decided to investigate the fluid dynamics involved in the filter feeding of stentors. He ...