A study by the Center for Redox Processes in Biomedicine (Redoxoma) led by Marilene Demasi from the Butantan Institute (São Paulo, Brazil) presents a valuable new experimental model for investigating ...

Sujith Puthiyaveetil (left) and Steven McKenzie look at a plant thylakoid preparation in the lab at Purdue University's Biochemistry Building. WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Cyanobacteria began contributing ...

For decades, scientists have believed that complex life began when two very different microbes joined forces, eventually giving rise to plants, animals, and fungi. But one major puzzle remained: how ...

At the dawn of complex life, evolution created a container for DNA, its most treasured item. A few billion years later, 20th-century microscopists looked at this container — the nucleus — up close and ...