Revisiting the building blocks of life: Archaea, often seen as simple organisms, demonstrate remarkable adaptability, potentially providing clues about how multicellular life originated and evolved in ...

A recent study has shown that they also have the potential to fix inorganic carbon—in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2)— to generate acetate, an important fuel for other sediment-dwelling organisms ...

for example). "Enzyme compounds of CO 2-forming enzymes and F 420-reductases were previously unknown," says Wagner. The researchers confirmed by additional experiments that both enzymes used F 420 ...