Discovered by Canadian and Japanese scientists, Sukunaarchaeum mirabile challenges the boundary between living cells and ...

This creature blurs the line between viruses and cells, exhibiting remarkable characteristics that push the boundaries of ...

The being in question is a microbe called Sukunaarchaeum mirabile. Preliminary research says it stretches the definition of ...

In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

It has genes for ribosomes, tRNAs, and mRNAs. These components are the scaffolding of life: the tools by which cells read ...

Unlike rabies, which causes roughly 59,000 human deaths annually, predominantly in Africa and Asia, human infection with bat ...

Porous materials have a wide range of applications due to their capacity to act as filters, or lightweight structural ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

A study published in mBio details the vulnerability of coronaviruses to inhibitors of a small protein domain called Mac1, or the "macrodomain," found in all coronaviruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and ...

This newly found organism doesn’t act like a virus or a cell, and that could change everything we know about biology.

A newly discovered organism is blurring the lines between living and non-living.

Because they rely on hosts for a majority of functions, viruses aren’t considered alive. But entities like this one ...