Few organisms create chitin, a polysaccharide. And those that do don’t form these kinds of filaments, Bonneville says. One detection technique employs a fluorescent dye to bind to chitin.

Focused on understanding the interactions between light and living organisms. Biology News. Jun 13, 2025. Study Unlocks Soft Corals’ Biomedical Potential. Jun 03, 2025. Freshwater Fish in U.S. Carry ...

Focused on understanding the interactions between light and living organisms. Biology News. Jun 13, 2025. Study Unlocks Soft Corals’ Biomedical Potential. Jun 03, 2025. Freshwater Fish in U.S. Carry ...

The towers could allow some of their members to reach new places or to hitchhike on other organisms such as fruit flies. The bigger question is how the worms communicate within the towers.

The bizarre behavior had previously been observed in experimental settings and was thought to be a competitive attempt to escape from the rest of the group. But new research suggests a more ...

Plants and other photosynthetic organisms use CO2, water, and light energy to produce glucose and O2. Glucose is used to synthesize organic molecules, while O2 is released into the atmosphere.

Today, biologists maintain huge databases containing the taxonomic names of plants, animals, fungi and other organisms. For instance, one of these databases—the Open Tree of Life project ...

During a tour of the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, Corey Allard noticed something strange: fish using six leg-like appendages to "walk" around the bottom of their tank.

Plus, because our species aren’t model organisms, they don’t have extensive toolkits, so we have to develop our own. There is always some tool that we either have to learn or work with collaborators ...