Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments ...

ETH researchers discovered related structures in Asgard archaea and describe their structure. These experiments show that ...

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton similar to that of complex organisms, such as animals and plants.

However, cells derived from these larval moths are easy to culture and can be readily infected with baculovirus — an insect pathogen that can be reprogrammed to churn out enormous amounts of ...