A groundbreaking study in the journal Science, has unveiled how deep ocean currents—known as global overturning ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

A recent breakthrough in the world of microscopic life has scientists reevaluating the boundaries of cellular existence.

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...

Phylogenetic tree linking all major groups of living organisms, namely the Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya, as proposed by Woese et al 1990, with the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) shown at ...

Cultivarium started working with bacteria and is now moving to the slightly more complex world of fungi and archaea. But Lee doesn’t want to stop there.

While microbiome research focuses on bacteria, archaea have eked out a shadowy existence—in spite of their potentially great influence on key metabolic processes in the human body.

A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from golden rice, which is genetically engineered to provide vitamin A, to advances ...