Origin of life: How a special group of single-celled organisms laid the foundation for complex cells
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...
The Tentacled Microbes That Might Have Sparked Complex Life
New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...
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Tiny microbes may have given rise to complex life
Scientists reveal the role of hidden microbes called Asgard archaea in the origins of complex life, challenging long-held ...
Asgard Archaea May Hold the Key to the Origins of Eukaryotic Life, New Study Suggests
Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...
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Asgard archaea provide clues to the origin of complex life forms
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...
How microtubules in Asgard archaea shaped evolution
In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...
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Origin of life: How microbes laid the foundation for complex cells
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered ...
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New Clues On Eukaryote Evolution From Asgard Archaea
ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...
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The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
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 ...