In the mid-1990s, scientists made a discovery that shook up the understanding of life on Earth: vast reservoirs of microbes ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with ...

Indeed, archaea and bacteria appear very similar biologically (members of both groups consist of tiny cells without much internal structure) and different from eukaryotes. However, until ...

Hocher sifted through over 18,000 bacterial genomes using shorter histone-related proteins from archaea as references ... a bacterium that preys upon other bacteria. The team thought it might be a ...

The origins of life on Earth have long fascinated scientists, particularly the nature of the last universal common ancestor ...

Most life on Earth relies on the sun's energy for survival, but what about organisms in the deep sea that live beyond the ...

Yale researchers uncovered the molecular machinery behind nanowire assembly in microbes, enabling advances in electricity ...

But there are none. Instead, there is a yawning gulf. On one side there are the tiny bacteria and archaea, collectively known as prokaryotes. On the other side there are the huge and unwieldy ...

A research team has discovered how the 'Shethna protein II' protects the nitrogen-fixing enzyme nitrogenase from damage. The oxygen sensor protein could help to make nitrogenase usable in ...

One of these involves fusion between cells from domains Archaea and Bacteria: one of the cells involved in the fusion becomes the eukaryote nucleus (Martin & Muller 1998; Martin 2005; Martin et al.