Methanogens produce approximately 60% of the world’s methane – a gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere.

A newly discovered promoter element "start" points to a shared regulatory syntax for controlling transcription initiation in bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. DNA is often described as the language ...

Rice fields could contribute up to 10–25% of global methane emissions, and most of this methane is produced by the rice cluster I (RC-I) methanogens, first identifed in 1998. Now, Sakai and co-workers ...

Archaeal biology is a scientific discipline that concerns the biology of archaea, a domain of organisms consisting of single, nucleus-free cells, distinct from bacteria and eukaryotes. Multiscale ...

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...