Researchers from Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology and Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology have identified how bacteria can adapt to toxic metals released from hydrothermal vents. The study focused on Nitratiruptor sp. SB155-2, a species of bacteria isolated from vents in the Okinawa Trough. The researchers found that bacteria use transporter proteins […]

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Scientists have discovered that some of Earth’s earliest complex life forms lived on the seafloor and depended on oxygen, challenging long-standing ideas about how advanced life evolved. The study, published in Nature, examined some of the oldest known fossils of eukaryotes—organisms whose cells contain a nucleus and other specialized structures. Eukaryotes include animals, plants, fungi, […]

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