Viruses typically lack many of the genes that are universal among the three domains of cellular life — in particular, genes for translation system components. However, a small core of viral ...

(B) The rooted three-domain tree. (C) The network of life. A: archaea; B: bacteria; E: eukaryote; LUCA: last universal common ancestor of cellular life-forms. The question mark indicates the ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

Kerry served as The Scientist’s news director until 2021. Before joining The Scientist in 2013, she was a stringer for Reuters Health, the senior health and science reporter at WHYY in Philadelphia, ...