All life shares a single root buried deep in Earth’s past. Its name? Asgard, and it rewrites what we thought we knew.

Synthetic biology is maturing into a true engineering discipline for model microorganisms, but remains far from straightforward for most eukaryotes. Here, we outline the key challenges facing those ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

For decades, oceanographers have known that something did not add up in the deep sea. Huge predators like sharks and tunas were spending long stretches in the dim “twilight zone,” yet the known prey ...

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Missi Dowd-Figueroa has brought life back to her fire-ravaged plot in Altadena by planting sunflowers. She lost her 1898 farm ...

Dozens of places across the U.S. will ring in 2026 by dropping a quirky assortment of fruits, vegetables, sea creatures and ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including the ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich recently explained the role of a molecular complex that orchestrates the production of proteins in our cells. They now show that this complex also controls the processing of ...

Relative to more typical nursery stock, bare root stock is substantially less expensive, less cumbersome and less distressed ...

$ conda create -y -n eukrep-env -c bioconda scikit-learn==0.19.2 eukrep The stringency of identifying eukaryotic contigs can be adjusted with -m. The false positive rate (FPR) and false negative rate ...