New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

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

One of these involves fusion between cells from domains Archaea and Bacteria ... Like Cell Biology of a Bacterium Planctomycete cell structure differs from that of all other known prokaryotes.

ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...

Prokaryotes are divided into two distinct groups: the bacteria and the archaea, which scientists ... that have a relatively simple structure. Prokaryotic cells are surrounded by a plasma membrane ...

Asgard archaea emerged as a key piece in the puzzle of how complex life evolved, acting as a potential link between simple archaea and eukaryotes—organisms like plants and animals whose cells contain ...

In a newly published article in Cell, the ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that Asgard tubulins form very ...