How life arose remains a looming question in science that researchers are seeking to answer by studying the features shared among life today. Everything alive is made up of cells, and what made the ...

The researchers also tested a membrane they designed that mixes archaeal and bacterial properties. For both types of membranes, the right-handed DNA and RNA sugars more easily passed through ...

Albers wondered. Kowalewicz-Kulbat added that the field still doesn’t know whether innate immune cells detect archaeal components, such as lipids or proteins in their membranes and cell walls. Further ...

Summary of permeability selection results for the archaeal and hybrid membranes. Credit must be given to the creator.