In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for ...

Excalidraw is an innovative online whiteboarding tool that uses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to convert simple text prompts into detailed, professional-quality diagrams. Whether you ...

In his book The Mathematical Universe, mathematician William Dunham wrote of John Venn’s namesake legacy, the Venn diagram, “No one in the long history of mathematics ever became better known ...

Multicellular systems are living organisms that are composed of numerous interacting cells. In synthetic biology, multicellularity allows some degree of modularity in the combination of elementary ...

The authors explain how development — influenced by the conditions in which organisms live — drives how an organism looks, behaves and evolves. To demonstrate this, they give the example of ...

1Neurology Clinic and National Center for Tumor Diseases, University Hospital Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. 2Clinical Cooperation Unit Neurooncology, German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), German Cancer ...

Rice University bioengineers have developed a new construction kit for building custom sense-and-respond circuits in human cells. The research, published in the journal Science, represents a major ...

The fossil gives a new insight into the transition of single-celled organisms to complex multicellular animals. It has been named Bicellum Brasieri and is described in a new research paper ...