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 ...

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

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scientists believe multicellular organisms evolved from single celled life, but understanding how has ...

The evolution of multicellularity represents one of the most consequential transitions in the history of life. This process, in which individual cells coalesce to form integrated and functionally ...

Cells can evolve specialized functions under a much broader range of conditions than previously thought, according to a study. Cells can evolve specialised functions under a much broader range of ...

A major event in the evolution of organisms on earth was the development of complex, multicellular life forms made of eukaryotic cells, which are thought to have come from prokaryotic cells. Studies ...

We've heard a lot about how important carbon and water are to life, but sulfur? Researchers think that sulfur may have actually been essential for organisms to make the transition from single-celled ...

Over 3,000 generations of laboratory evolution, researchers watched as their model organism, 'snowflake yeast,' began to adapt as multicellular individuals. In new research, the team shows how ...

Researchers directed evolution over thousands of generations to make superyeast that is over 20,000 times larger. They increased length, width and height by about thirty times. This is like taking ...

Microbes often display cooperative behavior in which individual cells put in work and sacrifice resources to collectively ...

Cells can evolve specialised functions under a much broader range of conditions than previously thought, according to a study published today in eLife. The findings, originally posted on bioRxiv*, ...