Finding life in outer space is one of the great endeavors of humankind. One approach is to find motile microorganisms that ...

AIST researchers, in collaboration with JAMSTEC, Hokkaido University and Tohoku University, have succeeded in cultivating an ...

Archaea are organisms consisting of a single cell without a nucleus and with distinct structural, physiological and evolutionary characteristics. They inhabit a wide range of habitats, including ...

“If we keep looking for defense systems in Archaea through homologs of already described ones in bacteria, we won't find them.” Buzz Baum, a cell biologist studying archaea at the Medical Research ...

New Delhi: Scientists at the Bose Institute, an autonomous institute of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), have studied archaea -- a domain of ancient organisms -- to find clues to ...

New analyses find that divergent transcription ... While previous research had described bidirectional promoters in eukaryotes, as well as in a few bacteria and archaea species, the new study ...

Ruff and his team found that subsurface bacteria and archaea are flourishing, even at depths where the energy supply is orders of magnitude lower than enjoyed by organisms in habitats that see the ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus. AIST researchers ...