Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes ...

The MicroIker group of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) has explored the diversity and distribution of ...

Gene editing and many other useful biotechnology tools came from studies of bacteria fighting off viral invaders. But ...

Induction of Multicellularity: When mechanically compressed, the salt-loving archaeon Haloferax volcanii can shift from being ...

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 ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

While previous research had described bidirectional promoters in eukaryotes, as well as in a few bacteria and archaea species, the new study establishes divergent transcription—the reading of genes in ...

Scientists from the UK recently conducted a detailed re-examination of a fossilized Prototaxites species found in ...

an important fuel for other sediment-dwelling organisms such as methanogens (which include marine archaea) and heterotrophic bacteria. The products of these organisms feed back into the carbon cycle ...

ETH researchers made these findings in a new study. Asgard archaea are a group of microorganisms discovered just ten years ago. They represent a link between bacteria, archaea and complex organisms, ...