Long before the appearance of plants or animals, primitive multicellular organisms had developed an effective strategy to ...

The study is published in the journal Nature.. The first life forms to appear on Earth were unicellular, i.e., composed of a single cell, such as yeast or bacteria. Later, animals—multicellular ...

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 ...

One of the most promising pieces of research was a 2021 study that found the skin cells from dead frogs could spontaneously reorganize to form multicellular organisms called "xenobots." These are ...

The previously oldest fossils of a multicellular organism dated to about 600 million years ago and were found in marine sediments from the Doushantuo Formation in central Guizhou Province of ...

Importantly, these multicellular organisms have a finite life span, naturally degrading after four to six weeks. This “kill switch” prevents the growth of potentially invasive cells.

There has been a range of evidence that the death of an organism does not necessarily signal the death of its cells, especially with organ, tissue and cell transplants.The new review expands on ...

Banner image: Carl Simpson inspects a fossil of Brooksella alternata, an invertebrate animal that swam in the ocean roughly 500 million years ago.(Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder) A new study from CU ...

A type of Streptomyces bacterium that lives in soil forms multicellular structures in which some bacterial cells have specialised roles, like the cells of complex organisms – and a computer ...

Importantly, these multicellular organisms have a finite life span, naturally degrading after four to six weeks. This "kill switch" prevents the growth of potentially invasive cells.

Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites. But the emergence of new multicellular life-forms from the cells of a dead organism introduces a “third state” that lies beyond the traditional ...