The Archaea was recognized as a third domain of life 40 years ago. Molecular evidence soon suggested that the Eukarya represented a sister group to the Archaea or that eukaryotes descended from ...

Researchers investigate into the various lineages of Asgard archae, and determine one related to Hods as the ancestor of ...

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

Studies of the Archaea have had a substantial impact on the field of biology. Carl Woese carried out several pioneering studies, examining the evolution of the genetic code, the translation apparatus ...

Microbiology has always been about recognizing the scale of what is unknown. In the beginning, the unknown was that microbes existed at all. The invention of the microscope proved that these tiny, ...

Nancy Shute talks about life’s complexities, from its evolution on Earth as a single cell to complex human behavior.

The biodiversity of the Earth never ceases to astonish. One example that has radically changed the face of biology is the discovery of a group of organisms called archaea (pronounced “ar-kee-ah”). It ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in ...

Archaea and bacteria are two different domains of cellular life. They are both prokaryotes, as they are unicellular and lack a nucleus. They also look similar (even under a microscope). However, DNA ...

Scientists know relatively little about archaea compared to their bacterial counterparts, but evidence of their roles in health and disease are beginning to trickle in. Methanogens are not the only ...

It turns out your skin is crawling with single-celled microorganisms -- and they're not just bacteria. A study has found that the skin microbiome also contains archaea, a type of extreme-loving ...