Nature publishes feature on Asgard archaea breakthrough
1 Sep 16 · 7d ago · 2 articles · 4 posts · 3 sources · development 1 of 1
Nature News reports on the emerging field of Asgard archaeon culturing and what direct study of these organisms reveals about the origins of complex life, describing researchers as racing to culture more species.
“Asgard are by far the coolest thing to happen to microbiology in the last 30 to 40 years.”
Paul CariniEmily Aguilar-Pine Researcher, University of Texas at AustinPaul Carini Microbiologist, University of ArizonaStavros Trimmer PhD student, Montana State University
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"Over two days in June, Emily Aguilar-Pine drove 2,500 kilometres from Bozeman, Montana, to Austin, Texas, with one of microbiology’s most coveted organisms in the back of her mother’s SUV. Inside some protective packaging, labelled ‘hopes and dreams’, was a small bottle containing about 30 millilitres of what looked like clear liquid, but that in…
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I'd not disagree: "Asgard are by far the coolest thing to happen to microbiology in the last 30 to 40 years,” says microbiologist Paul Carini at the University of Arizona in Tucson, whose laboratory is working with an unpublished culture that originated in an estuarine environment in Oregon. Scientists are now studying the surprising shapes…
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