Biologists forced ancient "asgardets" to breed in laboratory

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Scientists from Vienna university could grow up and study in vitro a microscopic being who can be the immediate ancestor of all organisms having in cages a kernel. Research is published in the Science magazine. Biologists needed six years of work for the first time to grow up Lokiarchaeum ossiferum in enough in laboratory. Its samples brought together in Slovenia, on the coast Piran. The microbe under the name Lokiarchaeum ossiferum belongs to group asgardsky the Archean. They were called in honor of Asgard, a monastery of gods from the Scandinavian mythology, and, according to some...
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