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Aug. 6 (UPI) -- Primordial, single-celled organisms and complex life share an important cellular process, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal Science, which researchers say supports a theory on the origin of complex life on Earth. The new research showed Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, a microbe that thrives inside acidic hot springs, uses a protein called proteasome to manage cell division and break down other proteins. Advertisement Sulfolobus acidocaldarius is a member of the single-celled domain known as archaea, which emerged alongside bacteria some 3.5 billion years ago. Roughly 1 billion years after they emerged, scientists estimate a bacteria cell and archaea cell merged, yielding eukaryotes -- cells that contain a clearly defined nucleus. All protozoa, fungi, pl...

April 20 (UPI) -- Scientists have adapted an optics technique used by astronomers to render biological processes at both the cellular and sub-cellular level in unprecedented detail.Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School worked together to build a next-generation microscope powered by "guide star" technology."For the first time, we are seeing life itself at all levels inside whole, living organisms," Tom Kirchhausen, a professor of cell biology and pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and a researcher at Boston Children's Hospital, said in a news release.The new microscope can be used to study almost any biological process or system in any kind of living organism. Scientists can use the microscope to render 3D images of a ra...

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Microbe reveals link between primordial organisms, complex life

Scientists capture video of cells as they function inside organisms