La Trobe University researchers have been studying the novel bacterium Mycosynbacter amalyticus —dubbed "microbial dark ...

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The Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA), the theoretical single organism from which all life on Earth descends, is now ...

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All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA—and it likely lived on Earth only 400 million years after its formation.

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Karenia brevis is a naturally occurring, single-celled organism belonging to a group of algae called dinoflagellates. Large ...

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Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

Scientists discovered a massive clone specimen of seaweed a known as bladderwrack along the coast of Sweden, stretching some ...