Beyond bacteria, fungi and archaea are emerging as powerful regulators of digestion, immunity, and disease risk, revealing ...

Microbiology has always been about recognizing the scale of what is unknown. In the beginning, the unknown was that microbes existed at all. The invention of the microscope proved that these tiny, ...

Living in the Dead Sea would be a very unpleasant experience for most creatures. With salt concentration above 30% and ...

Just call them archaea (ar-kee-uh) - archaebacteria are no more. Archaea were once considered to be quite similar to bacteria, but these prokaryotes are just weird enough to be classified in their own ...

The biodiversity of the Earth never ceases to astonish. One example that has radically changed the face of biology is the discovery of a group of organisms called archaea (pronounced “ar-kee-ah”). It ...

In an article published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, the authors discussed the involvement of archaea, a lesser-known but important component of the human microbiome, in various ...

Even hyperthermophiles, which grow optimally at temperatures of more than 80°C, require a functional heat-shock response to cope with exposure to temperatures that exceed their optimal growth ...