In a deft experiment, biologists have recreated a system that could have birthed essential cell features such as mitochondria ...

While it may sound like science fiction, this level of basal cognition is possible even in fungi, which created these shapes ...

Endosymbiotic organisms have to live inside of another to survive, and this relationship often provides benefits for both the ...

Long ago, bacteria entered other cells and stayed. This coexistence laid the foundation for mitochondria and thus the cells ...

Can organisms without a brain still show signs of intelligence? Researchers at Tohoku University and Nagaoka College had this ...

Cultivators are turning to genetic sequencing and cellular-manipulation techniques to breed highly potent mushrooms—leaving ...

The discovery that sound improves the growth rate of beneficial fungus suggests that dirges in the dirt may help restore forests.

Scientists have previously discovered that white noise can improve the growth rate of some microbes, including gray mold and ...

Humans began farming thousands of years ago, but a new study co-authored by two LSU professors says ants had us beat by ...

An organism as a tenant in another -- in biology, this often works quite well. Researchers have now shed light on how such a partnership of a cell in a cell can establish itself.

Fungi are a diverse group of microorganisms — consisting of approximately 144,000 known species. They’re one of the most ...

We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various ant species ...