(Source: University of Illinois System) Carl R. Woese, who discovered a new domain of life, dies at 84 12/31/2012 | Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor | 217-333-5802; diya@illinois.edu CHAMPAIGN, lll. - 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 discovery of a "third domain" of life, died Sunday (Dec. 30) at his home in Urbana, Ill. He was 84. Woese and his colleagues wrote two papers published in 1977 that overturned a universally held assumption about the basic structure of the tree of life. They reported that the microbes now known as archaea...
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