Thirty years ago this month, researchers published a discovery that challenged basic assumptions about the broadest classifications of life. Their discovery -- which was based on an analysis of ...

Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that ...

Thirty years ago this month, researchers at the University of Illinois published a discovery that challenged basic assumptions about the broadest classifications of life. Their discovery – which was ...

Carl Woese at a lightboard in 1976. Kristen Wilson Kristen Wilson Carl Woese at a lightboard in 1976. From the middle of the 18th century to the 1970s, it was believed there were two “domains” that ...

University of Illinois microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Carl R. Woese was hailed by colleagues as one of the great evolutionary biologists of the 20th century, a scientist who ...

Family members, colleagues and friends of the revolutionary professor, Carl R. Woese, gathered at his memorial Saturday. Woese is renowned for his discovery of archaea, the third domain of life, and ...

Woese based his classification of organisms not on their size or shape, as scientists had before, but on their sequences of molecules, Goldenfeld said. By looking at the cell's earliest machinery for ...

Carl Woese, who has died aged 84, revolutionised the world of evolutionary biology when he announced his discovery of a life form so different from other organisms that it amounted to an entirely new ...

Before Carl R. Woese, science divided the living world into two types of organisms: bacteria and everything else. But the University of Illinois professor and colleagues in the 1970s discovered that ...