There are more "life forms" on a person's skin than there are people on Earth.

It addresses the processes that generate spatial patterns of diversity and biogeography in organisms that can potentially be cosmopolitan. The contributors discuss questions such as: are ...

Could genes from the dawn of life hold the key to a stem cell revolution? A groundbreaking experiment could make it reality.

The team used these newly generated stem cells to help form a living, breathing mouse from a developing embryo.

"Specialist" lifeforms that live under Arctic sea ice are at risk as the ice retreats, new research shows. Scientists studied ...

Discover how plankton, the ocean's microscopic marvels, play a vital role in oxygen production and carbon sequestration.

The team used this to help biologists visualize the 3D stiffness of a microscopic organism, called Caenorhabditis elegans—a free-living worm, known scientifically as a nematode. They were able ...

Cells are microscopic building blocks of unicellular and multicellular living organisms. Animal, plant, fungal and bacterial cells are different in terms of structure but also have many similarities.

The radiating, kaleidoscopic pattern you see here was once the living glass skeleton – the cell wall – of a single-celled organism called a diatom ... Biology in the background Diatoms are microscopic ...

Scientists studied microscopic organisms in four environments—open ... with tiny organisms," said Vicky Jackson, from Exeter's Living Systems Institute. "These form complex communities that ...