A newly discovered organism is challenging the fundamental definition of life, blurring the lines between viruses and ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Scientists have long dreamed of creating a virtual organism—a computer model of a life-form so detailed and so comprehensive that it doesn’t just look alive on the screen but precisely mimics how the ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

Despite the importance of GoF modifications, they have sometimes faced misplaced concerns or opposition that could lead to their being overregulated or even banned.

Bacterial infections are treated with antibiotics, but antibiotics don't work for viral infections. Symptoms like fever, cough, and sore throat can be signs of both bacterial and viral infections. If ...

It's tiny and needy, but is it alive? That's a question prompted by recent research that highlights a surprisingly complex part of biology. The organism in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum ...

Scallops are generally considered sedentary organisms, meaning that they do not move around much. However, this very still lifestyle changes when a scallop is disturbed by a predator. This disturbance ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: With climate change, the threat of wildfires, and human encroachment among other things, our trees and forests are in desperate need of guardians. From ...

On the slope of a Utah mountain, lives the world's oldest living organism. It has lived there for thousands of years, living in harmony with the natural world around it, but today it is being slowly ...

Scientists study ancient unicellular organism C. perkinsii to understand transition from single-cell to multicellular life. Research suggests C. perkinsii demonstrates early forms of multicellular ...