“These single-cell organisms can do things that we assume are limited to more complex organisms,” said Shashank Shekhar, a biophysicist at Emory University in Atlanta who is the lead author of ...

An artist’s depiction of an Asgard archaeon, based on cryo-electron tomography data: the cell body and appendages feature thread-like skeletal structures, similar to those found in complex ... The ...

The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex ... within a cell and the segregation of chromosomes during cell division The ...

Discovering an unexpected role of CMG in cell fate decisions The CMG complex ... cell division. This exciting discovery was made using the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode worm, which has ...

“The first time we think it happened, it gave rise to all complex life.” Endosymbiosis where the host life form becomes fundamental to another organism’s function has only happened three ...

Cell division is a precise process ... how the molecular mechanism protects the organism from cancer development.” The Mitotic Stopwatch Complex remains stable through successive cell cycles ...

Cell division is a fundamental process for all living organisms. Despite billion years of evolution ... use an ancestral ESCRT-III (endosomal sorting complex required for transport III) system for the ...

The UCL Centre for Engineering Life (C≡L) will build on our historical strengths in Cell ... within the Division of Biosciences to fully equip the next generation of scientists. The transition of a ...

That change from micro to macro, from one cell to many ... only when organisms have tough bodies that don’t readily fall apart can they evolve more complex traits such as specialized tissues ...

One of the big mysteries in the field of biology is how the complex organisms that roam ... partners as well as basic cell biological processes such as cell division. “It has taken six long ...

How did the complex organisms on Earth arise ... Asgard archaea and their bacterial partners. Basic cell biological processes such as cell division can also be studied in the future in order ...