In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

Scientists have discovered Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a unique archaeon residing within marine plankton, challenging traditional definitions of life. Th ...

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like ‘Sukunaarchaeum ...

Two life forms living together helped spark the evolution of all complex life. By learning to appreciate this process more ...

Archaeal biology is a scientific discipline that concerns the biology of archaea, a domain of organisms consisting of single, nucleus-free cells, distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. The cell ...

Archaeal evolution is the process by which the domain of organisms called archaea has developed over multiple generations. This process can be studied by phylogenetics and such studies show that ...

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Since the introduction of archaea as the third domain of life in the late 1970s demonstrated distinct phylogenetic differences from the dichotomy of prokaryotes and eukaryotes, further differences ...