Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

The research indicates that the limitations on the size of proteins has been a crucial trigger in the development of life ...

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

ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...

In that study, Pilhofer and his postdoctoral researchers Jingwei Xu and Florian Wollweber demonstrated that Lokiarchaeum ossiferum possesses certain structures also typical ... in their eukaryotic ...

A typical eukaryotic cell has one nucleus, two centrioles, one ER, multiple mitochondria, scores of endosomes and many ribosomes. How is the number of organelles controlled? A key aspect of cell ...

Penn State researchers propose that Earth and life have evolved together in a way that is more typical of life-supporting planets.

A recent study by Chinese scientists has revealed the intricate molecular machinery driving energy exchange within chloroplasts, shedding light on a ...