Originally discovered in extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents, archaea, a single-celled ... of the mutants with ...

There are two major types of hypothesis about how eukaryotes and their nuclei may have originated (Poole & Penny 2007). One of these involves fusion between cells from domains Archaea and Bacteria ...

Scientists from Bremen, Germany, have characterized novel enzymes from deep-sea microbes with a key function in the ethane ...

The problem of cell type became clear to genome biologist Jason Buenrostro in 2013. He was studying a cell line derived from someone with cancer, trying to map out how the DNA was arranged in the ...

Fossil evidence of how the earliest life on Earth came to be is hard to come by. But scientists have come up with a few ...

Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape ...

Without that one-off event, life would still be stuck in its microbial rut. Bacteria and archaea cells just don’t have what it takes to evolve into more complex forms. So what happened?

Seeps on the deep seafloor naturally emit alkanes, which are pollutants that are potentially dangerous to life and act on ...

The space rock that slammed into Earth 66 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period caused a global calamity that ...

Vast numbers of different prokaryotic microorganisms shape the biosphere, with diverse metabolic capabilities. Determination of genome sequences for a wide range of bacteria and archaea now requires ...

We're all very complex organisms, made up of lots of different types of cells carrying out different jobs in our bodies; such as nerve cells, blood cells, fat cells and muscle cells. So ...

Share on Pinterest Are researchers getting closer to functionally curing type 1 diabetes? Image credit: Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images. A woman has undergone a stem-cell therapy made from her ...