Origin of life: How a special group of single-celled organisms laid the foundation for complex cells
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...
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Asgard archaea provide clues to the origin of complex life forms
Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...
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Discovering Archaea, 1977
The protocol consisted of digestion and two-dimensional electrophoresis of radioactive small-subunit (16S or 18S) ribosomal RNA. When exposed to X-ray film, the separated fragments generated a unique ...
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The Two Empires and Three Domains of Life in the Postgenomic Age
The discovery of Archaea as a distinct, new domain of cellular life stimulated extensive studies into the molecular biology of these microbes, many of which thrive in unusual, extremely hot or ...
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Ancient Archaea Reveal Secrets of Hydrogen Utilization
Dr. Bob Leung, Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute The team analyzed the genomes of thousands of archaea for ...
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The Long and Winding Road to Eukaryotic Cells
Despite recent advances in the study of eukaryogenesis, much remains unresolved about the origin and evolution of the most complex domain of life. Amanda was an associate editor at The Scientist, ...