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

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

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

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

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

The discovery of Archaea as a distinct, new domain of cellular life stimulated extensive studies into the molecular biology of these microbes, many of which thrive in unusual, extremely hot or ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...

Buzz Baum, a cell biologist studying archaea at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology who was not involved in the study, shared this thought. “There might be lots of things in ...

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 ...

Since the late 1980s, all life forms have been split into three groups on the phylogenetic tree of life: bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes and archaea have long been considered “sister ...