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

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

Bacteria are among the smallest living things. A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria.

Two recent papers 7,8 revealed the potential of single-cell genomics to at least partially describe specific and targeted uncultured organisms. Both studies investigated bacteria from the ...

Two bacterial species found in the guts of chickens, pigs and other animals are merging into a single species after the domestication of livestock brought the two ...

That is similar to what occurs in certain prokaryotes, or single-celled creatures like bacteria when they go through a process known as inversion. A fundamental tenet of biology that one gene can ...