When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...

Cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, have existed for billions of years, adapting to a diverse range of environments. Their ...

Researchers from Japan and Thailand have discovered that the cyanobacterium A. sacrum (Suizenji Nori in Japanese) produces two types of saclipins under drought stress. The compounds have UV-absorbing, ...

Cyanobacteria are one of the unsung heroes of life on Earth. They first evolved to perform photosynthesis about 2.4 billion years ago, pumping tons of oxygen into the atmosphere – a period known as ...

A bacterium has evolved an enzyme that assembles in a fractal structure, a mathematical pattern that repeats itself at smaller scales. Fractal patterns are found throughout nature on large, ...