Noble Environmental was sued by a shareholder last year in a case that is unresolved as it plans a $250 million tax-exempt ...

Micrometeorites raining down from space may have provided the perfect surfaces for the first primitive cells to form on Earth ...

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

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

Multiomics approaches for understanding of the dynamic mechanisms of soil holobiont in mitigating salinity stress in plant hosts. PGPR = plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria; AMF = arbuscular ...

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

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

An international team of microbiologists from the Medical University of Graz, the DSMZ—German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures (Braunschweig, Germany)—and the University of ...

A groundbreaking new study has pushed the timeline of life’s origin further back than previously thought. Researchers have ...

Archaea—one of the three primary domains of life alongside bacteria and eukaryotes—are often overlooked and sometimes mistaken for bacteria due to their single-celled nature and lack of a ...

Sensing complex multicellularity: The observed transition of Haloferax volcanii, revealing archaea’s novel capacity to go from unicellular to complex multicellular structures when subjected to ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered ...