The world would look very different without multicellular organisms—take away the plants, animals, fungi, and seaweed, and Earth starts to look like a wetter, greener version of Mars. But precisely ...

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 ...

In multicellular organisms like Daphnia, a type of tiny aquatic animal, the energy demands increase significantly with size, but this general principle appears to extend to all other animals, ...

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 ...

The emergence of multicellularity marks one of the most profound transitions in the history of life, transforming collections of single cells into integrated organisms with specialised functions. This ...

How did life make the leap from single cells to coordinated, multicellular organisms? And how do genetically identical cells ...

Imaging the 4D choreography of subcellular events in living multicellular organisms at high spatiotemporal resolution could reveal life’s fundamental principles. Yet extracting these principles from ...

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The pathbreaking geneticist Cassandra Extavour pursues the secrets of multicellular life while balancing careers in both science and singing. In Cassandra Extavour’s office at Harvard University hangs ...

The diversity of unicellular eukaryotes covered in the study, with their nucleus (blue) and microtubule cytoskeleton (magenta) stained. These organisms are so distantly related to each other as they ...