A new test using protozoa — single-celled organisms — has been developed by U.K. researchers, who say it has "great potential" for reducing the use of animals to determine the safety of cosmetics.

The present study applies metagenomics to characterize the diversity and relative abundance of protozoa residing in the rumen of Indian Surti buffalo (Bubalus bubalis). To increase protozoa ...

A first time survey of free-living protozoa in meat-cutting plants showed high diversity rates of various species including those that could harbor food-borne pathogens say researchers from Belgium.

News Published: 18 August 1923 The Life-Cycle of the Protozoa Nature 112, 253 (1923) Cite this article ...

Interactions among protozoa (mixed cultures of ciliates, flagellates and naked amoebae), bacteria-feeding nematodes (Pellioditis pellio Schneider) and the endogeic earthworm species Aporrectodea ...