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Another Side of Modern Fatherhood We hear a lot about how men are struggling, toxic, or both. Dr. Becky begs to differ. By John Hendrickson ...
Tate Modern post-Brexit embraced familiar mantles of environmental justice, racial reckoning and community uplift, the last seen especially when the museum renamed half its facility after a youth ...
A decade ago, the existence of Asgard archaea was unknown. However, in 2015, researchers analyzing deep-sea sediments uncovered gene fragments that suggested the presence of a new, previously ...
Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Scientists created the world’s first synthetic eukaryotic genome from S. cerevisiae and a new-to-nature tRNA neochromosome ...
The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...
A new method exposes key details of the mechanism behind calcium signaling in prokaryotes for the first time. Working in a Listeria monocytogenes model, researchers from Umeå University (Sweden) led ...
"The idea of a fusion of two different prokaryotes into one eukaryote seems incomprehensible to me from a cell biology perspective," noted Jogler. Jogler's research team has been studying unusual ...
Research from the University of Jena reveals that certain prokaryotes, specifically planctomycetes, can consume other cells, contradicting previous beliefs that only eukaryotes could perform ...
Prokaryotes are thought to be the oldest cell-based lifeforms on Earth. Pictured: a 3D illustration of marine bacteria. Shutterstock What we found We wanted to predict how climate change would ...
Surprising Study Reveals Life on Earth Began Just 400 Million Years After Formation Research suggests that the universal ancestor of all life on Earth was similar to prokaryotes and had an immune ...