Understanding the origin of the building block of all animal and plant life may lead to more insights about life on Earth and ...

The earliest cells harnessed energy through geochemical reactions, a process that LMU researchers have now successfully ...

Corals everywhere on the planet live in harmony with microscopic organisms. Many corals get their vivid colors from ...

Yellowstone National Park’s famoushot springshave long fascinated visitors with their vibrant colors and steaming pools. For ...

Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, United States ‡ Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oregon Health and Science ...

The findings may not only be applicable to archaea. “We found that mechanical compression induces multicellularity, a surprising finding, to say the least!” said Tanmay Bharat from the MRC Laboratory ...

Tanmay Bharat, a co-lead author from the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, underscores the broader implications of research in archaea on multicellularity: “We found that mechanical ...

"We still have a lot of unanswered questions about Asgard archaea, especially regarding their relation to eukaryotes and their unusual cell biology," says Pilhofer. "Tracking down the secrets of ...

Our goal is to develop new chemical biology tools to study the regulation of 2’,3 ... However, there is substantial evidence suggesting that Archaea may be involved in various infectious diseases in ...

Their study shows that these archaea are very 'picky eaters', which ... but also makes the host change its own metabolism and thus biology. NIOZ microbiologists Su Ding and Joshua Hamm, Nicole ...

The first occurred about 2.2 billion years ago, when an archaea swallowed a bacterium that became the mitochondria. This specialized energy-producing organelle allowed for basically all complex ...

Revolutions also occur in the biology itself — when evolution has enabled organisms ... long-lost cells called Asgard archaea. A billion years ago, Asgard archaea (or cells much like them) took the ...