Named Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, this new entity, found within the domain Archaea, challenges conventional understandings of biology by exhibiting both viral and cellular characteristics. Its genome is ...

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...

Within this dinoflagellate plankton (Citharistes regius) is a tiny microbe that acts more like a virus than a cell. Credit: Takuro Nakayama/University of Tsukuba In the dim waters off the Japanese ...

Following the drive to understand and control bacteria, it’s becoming clear that our methods have changed the very organisms we aim to understand, increasing resistance to tried-and-true antimicrobial ...

A first look into the molecular defenses of archaea highlights the importance of surveying diverse microbes to discover new types of antimicrobials As bacteria become increasingly resistant to ...

Scientists have discovered a mind-bending organism that challenges everything we know about life, blurring the lines between cells and viruses. The most striking feature of Sukunaarchaeum is its ...

A microbe ‘challenging’ the distinction between cellular life and viruses has accidentally been discovered, and it could apparently ‘reshape our understanding of cellular evolution’. Scientific ...

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and cell. Like ...

ABSTRACT: This paper is our evaluation of the astrobiological significance of recent findings secured using the James Webb Telescope on the “biomarker” composition in the atmosphere of the Earth-like ...