In a breakthrough with promising real-world applications, a team of Rutgers biophysicists, bioengineers, and plant biologists has captured the first live images. In a groundbreaking study, researchers ...

Every year, thousands of tons of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential ...

The dormant algae cells remained buried at the bottom of the Baltic Sea for thousands of years, and made a full recovery once ...

Every year, thousands of tonnes of brown algae are extracted from the seabed to obtain compounds such as alginates, a polymer composed of sugars that has high density and strength, offering potential ...

Prototaxites fossils continue to divide scientists. These 400-million-year-old structures may belong to a completely extinct branch of life. Since ...

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Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms ... microscopic algae it eats to survive. New research reveals that stentors, which are part of a group called protists ...

But when the resources reduce, it’s each one to its own.” We are not clones In other models of early multicellular life, such as the green algae Volvox cateri, cells that failed to divide properly ...

blue-green algae: members of the Class Cyanophyceae. bloom: an overabundant growth of organisms, often caused by nutrient enrichment. box scale: of prasinophytes, a box-shaped, organic scale on the ...

5 While cell walls are less common in eukaryotes, they are still present in plants, fungi and some protists. These rigid structures provide mechanical support, maintain cell shape and protect against ...

A eukaryote is any cell or organism that possesses a clearly defined nucleus. Eukaryotic cells form the foundation of complex, multicellular life, including apple trees, mushrooms, fish and humans.