Knowing which genes are responsible for the transformations could help with developing antifungal treatments, and may have ...

(CN) — In a study published Thursday that details ongoing international efforts to combat certain incurable diseases, scientists made an open call for research involving viral vaccines and artificial ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...

Ancient enzymes show life’s nitrogen signal stayed unchanged for billions of years, helping scientists read early Earth.

The evolutionary origin of life forms known as eukaryotes – a category that includes plants and animals but also yeast and few other single-celled organisms – is still a mystery, but many scientists ...

Primitive life forms thrived on Mars around the same time prehistoric life was developing in Earth’s oceans — but the Red Planet’s denizens doomed themselves, a new study suggests. Mars’ ...

Earth's population is estimated to be roughly 8 billion people, according to the United Nations. Depending on body size and thus the surface area of skin, a person could have more than 8 billion ...

Microbes taken from surface sediment near Lost Hammer Spring, Canada, about 900 km south of the North Pole, could provide a blueprint for the kind of life forms that may once have existed, or may ...