Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in ...

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 ...

As the bacteria grow, they spit out peptidoglycan, a component of the cell wall that acts like a large molecular bag. These remnants can still cause inflammation if injected into healthy mice.