As bacteria become increasingly resistant to antibiotics and other antibacterials, there is a growing need for alternatives. In a study published in the open-access journal PLOS Biology, Tobias ...

Antarctic dwelling single-celled microorganisms called archaea can behave like parasites, new research shows. In Antarctica is a small lake, called Deep Lake, that is so salty it remains ice-free all ...

Scientists have found further evidence to support the idea that the primary two domains of life, the Archaea and Bacteria, are separated by a long phylogenetic tree branch and therefore distantly ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Primitive single-celled organisms known as archaea have a survival mechanism that may be a legacy of the world’s earliest life-form. The last ...