Watch the full episode: <a href=" from space, you can see that the planet Earth is full of life. When you take a closer look, ...

A type of zooplankton, Daphnia pulex (a.k.a. the water flea) is a microscopic crustacean whose unique reproduction habits ...

Pensoft has launched Individual-based Ecology (IBE), a new open-access journal promoting an individual-based approach to ...

Different cell types have varying survival times. For example, in humans, white blood cells die between 60 and 86 hours after ...

Berkeley scientists have discovered a new choanoflagellate species in Mono Lake that forms multicellular colonies and hosts a ...

For example, anthrobots could be sourced from an individual's living tissue to ... Importantly, these multicellular organisms have a finite life span, naturally degrading after four to six weeks.

In an article published in The Conversation, biologists and co-authors Peter Noble and Alex Pozhitkov described how the ...

An individual’s growth and development is affected by the genes they inherit from their parents. An example of a human chromosome mutation is when a child inherits an extra copy of chromosome 21.

The organism that actually forms these shells ... The diatoms take in light and produce carbohydrates and oxygen. “So the individual bit of star sand—the individual skeleton—is actually ...

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These organisms exhibited behaviors that extend ... For example, anthrobots could be sourced from an individual’s living tissue to deliver drugs without triggering an unwanted immune response.

The team deployed a state-of-the-art holographic camera to examine the many microscopic organisms that inhabit the body of water. Dubbed the weeHoloCam, the technology can produce several thousand ...