To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The ...

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A recent study suggests that by the Neoproterozoic period, distinct lineages of amoebae, as well as the ancestors of plants, ...

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Unicellular organisms, such as microalgae, also age when they can no longer divide due to a lack of nutrients. The newly ...

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THE remarkably high salt tolerance of unicellular organisms, which have been found in a saline lake of salt concentration so high as 19–26 per cent sodium chloride by Ruben Tschik, T.

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How does multicellularity evolve? Scientists who study a family of green algae that includes unicellular Chlamydomonas and multicellular Volvox are beginning to find answers to this question.

ABOVE: Researchers have identified a nitrogen-fixing organelle known as a nitroplast. Here, it is seen at the opposite end of ...

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This year’s prestigious Nobel Prize in Medicine went to US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for “their discovery of ...