Ancient microbes whose existence predates the rise ... to perform many biochemical studies and to cultivate other Asgard archaea as well," co-senior author Christa Schleper, leader of the archaea ...

Although it had been predicted 5 that Asgard archaea would contain a more-complex cytoskeleton than those of bacteria and other archaea, seeing these filaments in cells is nevertheless a triumph ...

At ETH Zurich, Professor Martin Pilhofer and his team are fascinated by Asgard archaea and have examined the mysterious microbes for several years. In an article published in Nature two years ago ...

At ETH Zurich, Professor Martin Pilhofer and his team are fascinated by Asgard archaea and have examined the mysterious microbes for several years. In an article published in Nature two years ago ...

At ETH Zurich, Professor Martin Pilhofer and his team are fascinated by Asgard archaea and have examined the mysterious microbes for several years. In an article published in Nature two years ago ...

Ten years ago, nobody knew that Asgard archaea even existed. In 2015, however, researchers examining deep-sea sediments discovered gene fragments that indicated a new and previously undiscovered form ...

According to a study published January 11 in Nature, this archaeon may have been related to the Asgard archaea—a pantheon of microbes named for Norse gods, including Lokiarchaeota, Thorarchaeota, ...

A growing body of research suggests humans owe an evolutionary debt to Asgard archaea, a group of single-celled organisms discovered in hydrothermal vents in 2015. "The first one was found in this ...

Defense systems found in all complex life on Earth came from "Asgard." The ancestor of plants, animals and fungi evolved ...

It looked more ancestral, primordial. The organism, first published in Nature, is only the second representative of a group of microbes called Asgard archaea to be grown and studied in detail.