Everything alive is made up of cells, but not all cells are the same. Some are incredibly simple, while others are more complex and capable of supporting advanced life functions. Among the latter are ...

For simple lifeforms like prokaryotes—bacteria and archaea, they found that gene and protein length track each other. It seems that over time, genes got longer and so coded longer proteins.

DNA replication is an extremely accurate process and cells have evolved intricate control mechanisms to ensure that each region of their genome is replicated only once during S phase. Here, we compare ...

The eukaryotic cell, the most significant increase in complexity in the history of life's evolution on Earth, emerged as a phase transition and unlocked the path toward other major transitions ...

While prokaryotic cells do not have membrane-bound structures, they do have distinct cellular regions (Figure 1). In prokaryotic cells, DNA bundles together in a region called the nucleoid. Primitive ...

Calcium signaling plays a vital role in both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cellular processes, but the mechanisms behind calcium transport are more thoroughly understood in the former.

Cells found in nature can be classified into two groups based on their structural characteristics: prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The most significant difference between these two groups lies in ...

Prokaryotic cells are like single-room efficiency apartments while eukaryotic cells are like mansions with many rooms — and they are the only two kinds of cells in the world.

A total of 3,603 prokaryotic and 898 eukaryotic operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were found through culture-independent amplicon sequencing, whereas only 134 bacterial OTUs, which correspond to 3%, ...