Researchers at the University of Liège (ULiège) have identified microstructures in fossil cells that are 1.75 billion years old. These structures, called thylakoid membranes, are the oldest ever ...

A team of researchers reconstructed long-extinct proteins of a UV protection system of cyanobacteria. The surprising result: the proteins were already compatible with each other when they first met.

Cyanobacteria and Earth history / Andrew H. Knoll -- Insights into cyanobacterial evolution from comparative genomics / Wesley D. Swingley, Robert E. Blankenship, and Jason Raymond -- Gene transfer to ...

Analysis of hundreds of single-cell genomes from Yellowstone National Park shows bacterial species are less cohesive than previously thought.

A field of view (Sample A, WT-short) with both the phase contrast channel and then the autofluorescence pseudocolored bright green. The scale bar is 5 micrometers. Being able to correlate changes in ...

Martin Hagemann, Ramona Kern, Veronica G. Maurino, David T. Hanson, Andreas P.M. Weber, Rowan F. Sage and Hermann Bauwe Journal of Experimental Botany Vol. 67, No. 10 ...