The astrobiology community deeply mourns the loss of Dr. Carl Woese, the University of Illinois microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a “third domain” of life. He died on Sunday, ...

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 ...

Carl Woese, a former Microbiology professor who passed away in December 2012, is being honored for his influential discovery on a new domain of life. The Institute of Genomic Biology, IGB, will be ...

Famed microbiologist Carl Woese has a unique suggestion for teaching evolution to schoolchildren: don't do it. I recently talked to Woese, best known for rearranging the organismal kingdom from five ...

URBANA — Carl Woese thought about things a lot. And when a question or problem drew his attention, he would ponder it not for weeks or months, but for years. "It's not even clear that the atmosphere ...

Carl Woese, the University of Illinois microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a "third domain" of life, died Sunday at his home in Urbana. He was 84. In 1977, Mr. Woese and his ...

NEW YORK — Carl Woese, a biophysicist and evolutionary microbiologist whose discovery 35 years ago of a ‘‘third domain’’ of life in the vast realm of microorganisms altered scientific understanding of ...

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 ...

For the better part of this century, microbiologists have largely ignored evolutionary relationships among bacteria. But a revolution has occurred in microbiology with the advent of nucleic sequencing ...

URBANA – University of Illinois microbiology and Institute for Genomic Biology professor Carl R. Woese, who adopted a molecular approach to classifying organisms and upended taxonomy with the ...

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 ...

He speaks with the wisdom of someone approaching 75 years of age, with a knowledge of biology acquired from studying cellular evolution for the past 40, and with the assurance of a scientist who has ...