Initially championed as a potential model organism by biologist Sydney Brenner at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology in the 1970s, 6 the small size, rapid life cycle, ...

Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic ...

It’s not often that a microscopic organism gains celebrity status, but that’s exactly what tardigrades have managed to accomplish. The tiny organisms often called “water bears” due to ...