New research sheds light on one of the biggest questions in biology: where did complex life come from? The answer may lie ...

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

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 ...

In 2015, researchers examining deep-sea sediments near the underwater volcano Loki discovered gene fragments indicating a new ...

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.

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

This step could have occurred aeons ago when an Asgard archaeon entwined a bacterium with its appendages. Over time, the nucleus and other compartments evolved, and the eukaryotic cell was born.

Asgard archaea emerged as a key piece in the puzzle of how complex life evolved, acting as a potential link between simple archaea and eukaryotes—organisms like plants and animals whose cells contain ...