Search results for Prokaryote

Evolution May 20, 2025

Tiny genomic islands help ocean's most abundant bacteria respond flexibly to environmental changes

Using third-generation metagenomics, researchers from the Department of Plant Production and Microbiology at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) have uncovered the genomic basis behind the evolutionary success ...

Cell & Microbiology May 13, 2025

Bacterial immune system uses filament formation to disrupt viral invaders

A joint research team from the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Beijing Institute of Technology has uncovered a pivotal mechanism by which bacteria defend themselves against viral infection.

Evolution Apr 17, 2025

An evolutionary algorithmic phase transition 2.6 billion years ago may have sparked the emergence of eukaryotic cells

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shedding light on the most significant increase ...

Ecology Apr 11, 2025

Añana Saltern microorganisms help to clarify the groundwater flow pattern

The MicroIker group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored the diversity and distribution of unicellular organisms in the springs of the Añana Salt Valley. The study is published in the journal Microbial ...

General Physics Apr 11, 2025

Scientists find evidence of universal conformal invariance in diverse cellular movement

In a new Nature Physics study, researchers have provided evidence of universal conformal invariance in living biological cells. They show that a universal feature in the collective behavior emerges in groups of living cells.

Cell & Microbiology Apr 9, 2025

Recognizing rare microorganisms with an AI-based tool

Identifying rare microorganisms in microbiome data just got easier. A team of researchers from Portugal and Canada has developed a new tool that uses machine learning to automatically detect rare biosphere in ecological datasets.

Cell & Microbiology Mar 27, 2025

Artificial cells can glow at room temperature in response to external target molecules

Cell-free systems, which can express an easily detectable protein with a DNA or mRNA template without constraints of living cells, are attractive as foundations for biosensors. Moreover, by encapsulating them in lipid bilayer ...

Cell & Microbiology Mar 25, 2025

Study finds universality in moving cells—a discovery that could impact health and robotics

A study focusing on analyzing cell models found universality in their movement—an important discovery that could impact both health and robotics.

Plants & Animals Mar 10, 2025

Mariana Trench expedition discovers new lifeforms flourishing in deep-sea environment

Shanghai Jiao Tong University along with multiple collaborating institutions including the University of Copenhagen and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have conducted an extensive investigation into microbial ecosystems ...

Evolution Mar 3, 2025

Introducing Evo 2, a predictive and generative genomic AI for all domains of life

Researchers at the Arc Institute, Stanford University, and NVIDIA have developed Evo 2, an advanced AI model capable of predicting genetic variations and generating genomic sequences across all domains of life.

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