AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus.

In a paper published in Science Advances, the Pilhofer Lab (IMBB ... However, the mechanisms behind these interactions among archaea remain poorly understood. The study by Tobias Zachs and ...

From the flamboyant blossoms and birds of rainforests to the living rainbows of coral reefs, Earth’s surface is teeming with life. But some of its most diverse and fascinating biomes are thriving in ...

Archaea wrap their DNA (yellow) around proteins called histones (blue), shown above in a 3-D representation. The wrapped structure bears an uncanny resemblance to the eukaryotic nucleosome, a ...

Jack is a science writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area ... While previous research had described bidirectional promoters in eukaryotes, as well as in a few bacteria and archaea species, the new ...

Rovers sent to Mars have so far failed to detect life, likely because it doesn’t exist on the Red Planet. But we can’t say ...

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 ...

He intends to explore archaea-specific defense systems in more detail in his ... specific in vitro models for neurological research and drug discovery. Inventia Life Science, an innovator in 3D cell ...

Prokaryotes are unicellular and lack a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles. They are generally smaller and simpler and include bacteria and archaea. Eukaryotes on the other hand are often ...