It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms -- and they're not just bacteria. A study has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving ...

Archaea are radically different from all other life forms. ... Many types of bacteria can perform photosynthesis (generating oxygen from sunlight), while Archaea cannot; ...

Although archaea make up just 1.2% of the gut microbiome, ... They said they were surprised to find so many types of archaea that were new to science — three genera, ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea occupy their own branch on the tree of life, like bacteria, but we know a lot less about them. Like bacteria, archaea also don't have a nucleus, and have ...

Many years ago as a young biochemistry major at the University of Bath in the UK, I undertook a senior research project with one of the research professors. I ...

So far, the link of these methane-forming archaea with disease, such as colon cancer or inflammatory bowel disease has not clearly been resolved, probably due to the missed species-resolution to date.

Scientists have documented for the first time that animals can and do consume Archaea – a type of single-celled microorganism thought to be among the most abundant life forms on Earth. Archaea ...

Scientists have documented for the first time that animals can and do consume Archaea – a type of single-celled microorganism thought to be among the most abundant life forms on Earth. Archaea ...