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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have long investigated what type of life exists beyond Earth and how we can find it. A new method focuses on looking for one of the most basic signs of living microbes – movement.

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 ...

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