New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

An international scientific team has redefined our understanding of archaea, a microbial ancestor to humans from two billion ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered ...

Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar biologically (members of both groups consist of tiny cells without much internal structure) and different from eukaryotes. However, until ...

In humans, viperins are part of the body's innate ... But the genes were much more similar between archaea and eukaryotes ...

Leão and his team used a database of prokaryotic defense systems to study the distribution of complete systems in the genomes of archaea, including Asgard archaea, and bacteria. 7 The researchers ...