It’s undeniable at this point that Asgard archaea contributed a lot to the complexity that we see in eukaryotes today.” ...

The organisms found in the microbiome outnumber human cells. This makes the microbiome a key target to aid in our ...

All complex life on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells, which are more sophisticated than ...

Examining genomes shows that gene snatching is pretty common between prokaryotes such as bacteria, but it has also been found ...

When talking about studies involving biodiversity and microbiomes, much is known about the bacteria that inhabit environmental and clinical samples. However, there is a world beyond prokaryotes that ...

As the famed British naturalist David Attenborough noted, “In our hands now lies not only our own future but that of all ...

Long known as a messenger within cells, RNA is increasingly seen as life’s molecular communication system — even between ...

The first in-depth global analysis of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) forecasts over 39 million deaths from infections by 2050 ...

Like the human immune system, bacteria learn from past infections ... Scientists realized that they could edit and disrupt gene function in eukaryotes by engineering customizable short guide RNA to ...

(A) Strain-dependent gene essentiality of genes shared by five strains. The Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic tree based on 3284 core genes of five test strains is shown and all branches have 100% ...