A collection of papers published in Cell and Cell Genomics describes the activities of an international research consortium working on synthesizing the first fully synthetic eukaryotic genome using ...

For billions of years after the origin of life, the only living things on Earth were tiny, primitive cells resembling today’s bacteria. But then, more than 1.5 billion years ago, something remarkable ...

A soft summer evening in the Paleoproterozoic, as envisioned by DALL-E. Credit: DALL-E / Harrison Tasoff The sun has just set on a quiet mudflat in Australia's Northern Territory; it'll set again in ...

The origin of organisms with complex cells, known as eukaryotes, is one of the most crucial parts of life’s evolutionary story. All animals, plants, and fungi are eukaryotes, and if complex cells had ...