In the field of biology, there are always new developments thanks to the work of scientists. In this sense, a totally new ...

Using termite and cockroach genomes, researchers built phylogenetic trees from transposons, paving a new way to differentiate ...

In 1977, Woese and Fox proposed the Archaea as a new domain of life and that the tree of life is divided into three branches — the Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea. Although a three-domain tree was ...

Complex life began to develop earlier, and over a longer span of time, than previously believed, a new study has revealed.

Complex life, eukaryotes, traces its origins to a shared ancestor among the Asgard archaea, reshaping our understanding of ...

In 1977, Woese and Fox proposed the Archaea as a new domain of life and that the tree of life is divided into three branches — the Eukarya, Bacteria and Archaea. Although a three-domain tree was ...

Mississippi State biologist Matthew W. Brown is part of an international research team whose groundbreaking discovery ...

Last month, Brown was named the 2025 recipient of MSU’s Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award, the university’s highest ...

All species on Earth, both living and extinct, are related. We know this because of a biological tool called the tree of life. This "tree" takes the form of a diagram that maps the relationships ...

An archaeon reads the same codon in two different ways, overturning a doctrine that has stood for 60 years. Living organisms ...

When Josefin Stiller was growing up in Berlin, she loved reading about Greek gods in an encyclopedia of mythology. She often lost track of their relationships, however—their feuds, trysts, and ...

The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth's ...