A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists were diving into a mysterious biological phenomenon known as the "third state," where cells of a deceased organism can adopt new functions after death, Popular Mechanics ...

In her book "Beyond Anxiety: Curiosity, Creativity and Finding Your Life's Purpose," the sociologist and life coach Martha Beck describes two different ways humans group in society: One structure is ...

Stentor coeruleus is a giant unicellular, filter-feeding protist that uses the coordinated motion of its oral ciliary structure to generate feeding currents. These currents allow the organism to ...

The death of an organism does not spell the end for its cells, according to new research. Cells have been shown to continue to function even after the organism they originated from is deceased, often ...

Funding: W.C.R. acknowledges support from the NIH (grant no. 5R35GM138030) and NSF (CAREER Grant no. 1845363), A.J.B. acknowledges support from the Human Frontiers Science Program grant (RGY0080/2020) ...

It’s known as the “boring billion,” a murky period in Earth’s history between 1.8 billion and 800 million years ago, when life’s complexity didn’t extend much beyond single-celled organisms. Apart ...

Images of the multicellular development of the ichthyosporean Chromosphaera perkinsii, a close cousin of animals. In red, the membranes and in blue the nuclei with their DNA. The image was obtained ...

For almost half the history of life on Earth, the complexity of all organisms was limited to that of simple prokaryotic cells such as contemporary bacteria. The process by which genes are activated, ...

Life and death aren't the be-all and end-all states of biological existence—a third state is likely somewhere in between. According to new research, cells from a dead organism can often take on new ...

Setting religion and beliefs about an afterlife aside, most people agree there are two stages to the experience of living organisms: life and death. Obviously there's usually a lot that goes on in the ...

Research led by Peter A. Noble, University of Washington and Alex Pozhitkov, Irell & Manella Graduate School of Biological Sciences at City of Hope Life and death are traditionally viewed as opposites ...