Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic ...

Scientists at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the genes that allow an organism to switch between living as single ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who've spent years trying to understand how solitary single-celled organisms began living in unison and triggered the ...

Modern cells are complex chemical entities with cytoskeletons, finely regulated internal and external molecules, and genetic material that determines nearly every aspect of their functioning. This ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes are in complex relationships. In the ocean, the soil, and your gut, they ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown giant virus that may offer new insight into how complex life first evolved.

A genomic atlas of Nematostella vectensis reveals how primitive animals created multiple cell types millions of years ago, ...