Scientists have identified a microbe capable of interpreting a single piece of genetic code in two completely different ways.

The origin of eukaryotes traced from Asgard archaea, revealing how complex cells evolved and led to animals, plants and ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

Researchers discover a unique genetic code in Antarctic archaea that encodes a rare amino acid, potentially advancing protein ...

Scientists trace an ancient microbe, Asgard archaea, that gave rise to humans, animals, and plants more than 2 billion years ...

Researchers investigate into the various lineages of Asgard archae, and determine one related to Hods as the ancestor of ...

A new study finds that at least one Archaea has surprisingly flexibility when interpreting genetic code, which goes against a ...

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. DNA is often described as the language ...

The genetic code is the recipe for life, and provides the instructions for how to make proteins, generally using just 20 amino acids. But certain groups of microbes have an expanded genetic code, in ...

Archaea and bacteria are two different domains of cellular life. They are both prokaryotes, as they are unicellular and lack a nucleus. They also look similar (even under a microscope). However, DNA ...

Microbes from a remote bay in Western Australia seem to connect to each other with tiny tubes, forming a relationship that may reflect an early step in the evolution of complex life. In Shark Bay, or ...

A first look into the molecular defenses of archaea highlights the importance of surveying diverse microbes to discover new types of antimicrobials As bacteria become increasingly resistant to ...