The past decade has revealed the diversity and ubiquity of archaea in nature, with a growing
number of studies highlighting their importance in ecology, biotechnology and even human …

Liver and biliary diseases affect more than a billion people worldwide, with high associated
morbidity and mortality. The impact of the intestinal bacterial microbiome on liver diseases …

The scaling of organelles with cell size is thought to be exclusive to eukaryotes. Here, we
demonstrate that similar scaling relationships hold for the bacterial nucleoid. Despite the …

Archaea play indispensable roles in global biogeochemical cycles, yet many crucial cellular
processes, including cell-shape determination, are poorly understood. Haloferax volcanii, a …

In bacteria, the tubulin homologue FtsZ assembles a cytokinetic ring, termed the Z ring, and
plays a key role in the machinery that constricts to divide the cells. Many archaea encode …

Bottom-up biology is an expanding research field that aims to understand the mechanisms
underlying biological processes via in vitro assembly of their essential components in …

Some microbes display pleomorphism, showing variable cell shapes in a single culture,
whereas others differentiate to adapt to changed environmental conditions. The pleomorphic …

Compared with the extensive knowledge on cell division in model eukaryotes and bacteria,
little is known about how archaea divide. Interestingly, both endosomal sorting complex …

Archaea are key players in many critical ecological processes. In comparison to eukaryotes
and bacteria, however, our understanding of both the cell biology and diversity of archaea …

Live-cell imaging has revolutionized our understanding of dynamic cellular processes in
bacteria and eukaryotes. Although similar techniques have been applied to the study of …