Archaea come in various shapes, from cocci to filaments. However, unlike the cell shape determinants in bacteria, the factors that are important in cell shape determination in archaea are not well ...

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 ...

When you get infected with a virus, some of the first weapons your body deploys to fight it were passed down to us from our microbial ancestors billions of years ago. According to new research from ...