Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as C. elegans, a worm used in scientific research. Perhaps you’d also like to believe that humans are more complex ...

A new study shows that multicelled organisms like the metazoan daphnia (pictured) require a tenfold increase in energy compared with protists for their growth, maintenance and survival. The high cost ...

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SEATTLE — Apr. 22, 2002 — Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have harnessed the power of yeast — a simple, single-celled organism crucial for brewing beer and baking bread — as a ...

A new study of four single-celled organisms had some surprising results. The organisms, which differed in size and complexity of each organism's genome, used the same number of biochemical reactions ...