"It really proves that life... uh... finds a way," said Shreveport Aquarium, Louisina's curator of live animals, Greg Barrick.

When eggs are produced by meiosis—the cell division process that leaves the egg with half of the parent ... case of parthenogenesis, however, a polar body ends up basically being used to ...

This process, known as parthenogenesis, gives rise to an all-female population ... chromosome copies – a concept known as the “Meselson effect.” Through the use of genome sequencing techniques, the ...

10 In humans, this miniature, preformed version of the fully-grown organism is known as the homunculus, a term also used to illustrate the contributions to sensory input and motor outputs of our ...

All biological function is dependent on how different proteins interact with each other. Protein-protein interactions ...

Yale researchers have created "Ochre," a genomically recoded organism that enables the production of synthetic proteins with ...

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

"How parthenogenesis kicks in or what cues the females use to begin the process remains to be discovered." The Shreveport Aquarium plans to seek confirmation through genetic testing once Yoko is ...

The announcement confirms one of two rumors that circled the internet this week. The other was about superintelligence. After weeks of buzz, OpenAI has released Operator, its first AI agent.

A pathogen infects the organism, and the organism tries to fight off the infection. That is like what’s happening here, except the main symptom of Trump fever is awesomeness. An organism ...