Bacterial and other microbes are thought to evolve primarily through binary fission, meaning asexual reproduction, while also engaging in infrequent genetic exchange. Using a novel bioinformatic ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...

What keeps them cohesive?” Traditionally, it has been assumed that microbial evolution occurs primarily through asexual reproduction, specifically binary fission, with only sporadic genetic ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This process, homologous recombination, reinforces distinct species boundaries and ...

she would wonder. It wasn’t until she was 17 and voiced her frustrations in her high school lunchroom that a friend suggested she may be asexual. Although Busits had never heard of the term ...

“Not all shareholders full appreciated what we have bought,” said Paladin’s CEO Ian Purdy in reference to the uranium miner’s C$1.1bn all-share takeover of Fission Uranium Corp. The transaction, first ...

A better understanding of dinosaur evolutionary relationships has given paleontologists a framework from which to hypothesize about different aspects of dinosaur reproduction, and those ideas have ...

Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on Kubernetes. With Fission, developers can easily create and deploy ...

Jan. 23, 2025 — Rising carbon dioxide levels affect more than just the climate; they also affect the chemistry of the oceans. When saltwater absorbs carbon dioxide, it becomes acidic, which ...