The ability of bacteria to control the biophysical properties of their membrane phospholipids allows them to thrive in a wide range of physical environments. Fatty acid biosynthesis is an energy ...

A dangerous creature lurks in warm Texas lakes, rivers, springs, poorly maintained pools, and splash pads. It's also in the ...

Next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF proves its effectiveness in quickly diagnosing almost any kind ...

It more commonly affects animals than people. In humans, it usually is caused by eating contaminated food or an infected animal. The most common cause is an amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri, which ...

perkinsii), an ancestral species of protist. This unicellular organism separated from the animal evolutionary line more than a billion years ago, offering valuable insight into the mechanisms that ...

Credit: Mars 160 Crew/The Mars Society Research at Mars analog sites in Utah and Nunavut focuses on lichen diversity, helping to predict lichen survival on Mars and aiding our understanding of these ...

Eco-friendly and biodegradable plastic using bacteria has been developed at the University of the Philippines (UP) Los Baños, according to the report of Martin Javier for Game Changer on "24 Oras" on ...

Rachael is a writer and digital content producer at IFLScience with a Zoology degree from the University of Southampton, UK, and a nose for novelty animal stories.

Researchers at the Complexity Science Hub and Santa Fe Institute have developed a model to calculate how quickly or slowly an organism should ideally learn in its surroundings. An organism's ideal ...

It is common knowledge that the human gut is home to hordes of bacteria, most of which seem essential for good health. But there is another component of the gut microbiome that receives less ...

Here, the CBSE Class 10 Science Chapter 7 Competency-Based Questions are provided for How Do Organisms Reproduce? Also, download the free PDF of the questions with answers and marking schemes.

A rare amoeba caused Brooklyn McCasland to go blind in one eye — and she’s still struggling with the parasitic infection Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has ...