At the microscopic edge of biology, researchers have uncovered an organism so stripped down that it forces a rethink of what ...

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 ...

The largest organism in the world has survived relatively unnoticed within the Fishlake National Forest in Utah. Now, researchers are concerned that this organism, 1,000's of years old, is dying. The ...

Caenorhabditis elegans is a species of nematode worm and is frequently chosen as a model organism to study human diseases. Image Credits: Heiti Paves / Shutterstock.com While not as sophisticated as a ...

Scientists have discovered the organism with the largest known genome, containing 160 billion base pairs. That makes it more than 50 times bigger than the human genome, and the organism it’s ...

This story originally appeared on Atlas Obscura and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Under the Blue Mountains of Oregon lurks something massive and prehistoric. Yet the largest recorded ...

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For the first time scientists have found an organism that can produce chlorophyll but does not engage in photosynthesis. The peculiar organism is dubbed 'corallicolid' because it is found in 70 per ...

Escherichia coli is a rod-shaped (bacillus) Gram-negative bacterium that is frequently used as a model organism. Factors such as its ability to grow fast using cheap media and availability of ...

The key question in the debate over stem cell research that involves the destruction of human embryos is: When does the life of a human being begin? To answer this question is to decide whether human ...