Revisiting the building blocks of life: Archaea, often seen as simple organisms, demonstrate remarkable adaptability, potentially providing clues about how multicellular life originated and evolved in ...

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule structures Findings challenge the three-domain model of life classification ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new tool, BLU-VIPR, enhances CRISPR precision by using light to control gene editing, allowing targeted modifications in specific organism areas. This method ...

All living organisms on Earth belong to one of three domains: Bacteria, Archaea, or Eukaryotes (also known as Eukarya). Bacteria and Archaea are single-celled microorganisms without a nucleus ...

An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown branch of life, researchers say.

The answer may lie with Asgard archaea, a group of ancient single-celled microbes that share surprising similarities with more complex organisms. By closely examining one of these microbes, scientists ...

A new study reveals plants, fungi, bacteria, protists, and even some viruses deploy venom-like mechanisms, similar to that of venomous snakes, scorpions and spiders, according to researchers at ...

The study was published in the journal Cell. Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki ...

Leão and his team used a database of prokaryotic defense systems to study the distribution of complete systems in the genomes of archaea, including Asgard archaea, and bacteria. 7 The researchers ...

All living organisms change – during the course of their lifetimes and across generations. The Max Planck Institute for Biology (name changed at the end of 2021 from Max Planck Institute for ...