The origin of the eukaryotic cell is considered one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life. Current evidence strongly supports a scenario of eukaryotic origin in which two ...

A new species of archaebacteria thriving within a temperature range of 80 to 105°C and able to divide itself up to a hydrostatic pressure of 120 Mpa (1000 times higher than the atmospheric pression), ...

The extent to which cattle, rice fields and thawing permafrost soil are intensifying climate change is still undetermined. It is known, however, that archaebacteria in the intestines of cows and in ...

Scientists are using genetic scissors one-third the size of CRISPR Cas9/Cas12a to develop a more resilient rice strain. Sourced from a hardy archaebacteria, the repurposed protein 1 can easily slip ...

A new study explains the divergent evolution of the genomes of different groups of species. The connection between the function of enzymes and the composition of the genomes shed light on the ...

In the dark ocean depths, kilometers beneath the waves, scalding water spews from hydrothermal vents as it has for billions of years. Bubbling up at the breaks between Earth’s plates, that water is a ...

Sully Vent in the Main Endeavour Vent Field in the northeast Pacific, similar to the environment LUCA would have lived NOAA PMEL EOI Program In the last few years, DNA analysis has allowed researchers ...

The number of model organisms has grown in concert with the increasing number of genome-sequencing projects. As a result, the 'tree of life', which was previously based on a ribosomal RNA gene ...