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

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

Who were our earliest ancestors? The answer could lie in a special group of single-celled organisms with a cytoskeleton ...

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

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

Asgard archaea may have led to the evolution of eukaryotic life ETH Zurich researchers identify actin and microtubule ...

According to a study published January 11 in Nature, this archaeon may have been related to the Asgard archaea—a pantheon of microbes named for Norse gods, including Lokiarchaeota, Thorarchaeota, ...

they propose than an archaeon—specifically a hydrogen-producing, Asgard-like archaeon—was the original nucleus. The host, they suggest, was likely a deltaproteobacterium, and the ancestor of ...

Originating in the sediments of a brackish water channel in Slovenia, this Asgard archaeon was isolated by researchers in Christa Schleper's laboratory at the University of Vienna. In that study ...