A virus that infects ocean phytoplankton was found to encode a ribosomal protein, a first for eukaryotic viruses. Researchers ...

A high-resolution analysis of the global diversity of fossils spanning 2 billion years shows how a series of super ice ages ...

The National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) is a competitive medical entrance examination in India for admission to ...

Virginia Tech’s study traces early eukaryotic evolution, highlighting life’s diversification since 2 billion years ago.

The phylum Apicomplexa comprises eukaryotic parasites that cause fatal diseases affecting millions of people and animals worldwide. Their mitochondrial genomes have been significantly reduced, leaving ...

Fossils can offer key insights into life's evolution. Before 500 million years ago, however, the emergence of eukaryotic life and their first fossil traces remain uncertain. Eukaryotes are organisms ...

An international team led by Chinese paleontologists has made significant advances in understanding early life evolution by mapping out for the first ...

Fossilized skeletons and shells clearly show how evolution and extinction unfolded over the past half a billion years, but a new analysis extends the chart of life to nearly 2 billion years ago. The ...

Over the 1.5 billion years of the Proterozoic Eon, a crucial innovation in terrestrial life unfolded — one without which we would not exist today ...

If all the world's a stage and all the species merely players, then their exits and entrances can be found in the rock record ...

Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held ...

Regulatory T (T Reg) cells are essential for maintaining peripheral tolerance, preventing autoimmunity and limiting chronic inflammatory diseases. However, they also limit beneficial responses by ...