by Christoph — When you've followed our posts on symbioses between animals and bacteria over the last two years or so, you could have easily got the impression that they occur mainly between insects and Gammaproteobacteria from the order Enterobacterales of this large and diverse phylum. This impression would be skewed but only because our choice of topics was!
by Christoph — When considering "Who ate whom?", you're likely to think of the eukaryotes. They gobble up just about everything by phagocytosis, a common property of unicellular protists and cells of more complex multicellular eukaryotes such as us humans (macrophages, for example). And whether it's microplastics, mineral fibers like asbestos, organic debris or living...
by Marcia Stone — Evolution is largely driven by conflict, not collaboration, according to cell evolutionist Harmit Malik at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC). Mammalian cells are contentious places, he explains, populated by alien and host genomic sequences fighting for dominance. "In the competition between one gene faction and another, the side…
