Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

Finding life on another planet would be a world-changing discovery for humanity. But actually detecting it is no simple task.

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

The search for alien life could be boosted by a simple new test, say scientists. They believe the movement of microbes may ...

Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Optogenetic technology was used to manipulate intracellular signal transduction, revealing how periodic cAMP signal frequencies regulate gene expression and cell ...

The guidance strategy of a cell varies with the chemotactic gradient: in steep gradients, cells produce pseudopodia directly up the gradient, but in weak gradients, pseudopodia are produced at ...