How did eukaryotic organisms become so much more complex than prokaryotic ones, without a whole lot more genes? The answer lies in transcription factors. Experiments have shown that TFs can bind ...

Foraminifera, though eukaryotic, have adapted to use chemoautotrophy to enable them to survive where oxygen and sunlight are ...

According to scientists, the world is split into two kinds of organisms — prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic — which have two ...

Genetic material DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is found on one or more rings ...

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

Ancoracysta is a protist, a group of unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that sit at the root of the eukaryotic tree of life. For researchers such as Janouškovec, they are an ... After a year teaching ...

The history of life on Earth is a tale of slow burns and sudden explosions, shaped by environmental upheavals and ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

Fungi are eukaryotic organisms that have fascinated mankind for a long time with their potential as a medicine, but they also ...