How and where did the first forms of life arise? These are the main questions driving research at the Institute of Molecular ...

Researchers mapped enzyme sequences from several thousand modern species onto an evolutionary tree of life. Their findings suggest that, shortly after cyanobacteria evolved the ability to produce ...

Billions of years of evolution have made modern cells incredibly complex. Inside cells are small compartments called organelles that perform specific functions essential for the cell’s survival and ...

A new study suggests that aerobic respiration began hundreds of millions of years before oxygen became abundant in Earth’s atmosphere. Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great ...

Biologists are quietly rewriting what it means to be alive, and the human body has become one of their strangest frontiers. Inside our cells and microbiomes, researchers are uncovering entities that ...