6 This system might allow bacteria to rapidly reshape immune sensors to adapt to a variety of infectious agents. Struck by its similarity to human immunity, Wilbanks and her team further investigated ...

Can be used to recap on the nervous system or could lead into a classroom discussion on multicellular organisms.

Many species of multicellular organisms differ greatly from each other with respect to the types of developmental mechanisms and traits they have evolved. For instance, by definition every ...

All multicellular creatures interact with bacteria, but some have taken the relationship to another level with highly specialized structures that house, feed, and exploit the tiny organisms. For the ...

Scientists recreated the origins of one of life's most important partnerships, uncovering how symbiotic relationships can ...

In essence, nature may have had the genetic “blueprints” for creating complex multicellular organisms long before animals, including those that lay eggs, emerged. This study, published in ...

Together with the multicellular host organism, these symbiotic bacteria, viruses and fungi, which colonize on and in their ...

Muscle oxygen-binding proteins circumvent anatomical limits to enhance oxygen diffusion in multicellular organisms ...

The fossil offers new insight into the transition of single celled organisms to complex, multicellular animals. Modern single-celled holozoa include the most basal living animals and the fossil ...