An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms ...

An international collaboration between four scientists from Mainz, Valencia, Madrid, and Zurich has published new research in ...

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

When subjected to physical pressure, archaea - ancient single-celled organisms - form multicellular structures.

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

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

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

On the basis of the bacteria and archaea communities and their distribution in the waters, the UPV/EHU researchers saw that ...

After further searches, microbiologists identified the corresponding organisms, described them, and classified them as a separate archaeal subgroup called Asgard archaea. Like bacteria ...

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 ...

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