It wasn’t a foregone conclusion that the protist genes would work in the same way. There are around 20 Sox genes in mammals, with a special variation called Sox2 that is important for ...

A protist can be seen in this image, courtesy of Dan Wieczynski Eukaryotes are different from prokaryotic cells like archaea and bacteria because they have organelles, or most specifically, a membrane ...

The research team shows for the first time that intracellular bacteria known as symbionts protect their host against viruses. Amoebae are protists, i.e. single-celled microorganisms with a cell ...

It is a protist – a single-celled organism that is a eukaryote, which means it has a complex internal structure and is more related to animals, plants and fungi than it is to bacteria. When we… ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer.

Some very simple organisms are capable of very complex behavior, like fungi that exhibit signs of memory or bacterial cells that can orchestrate their activity and work as a larger organism.

These made the bacteria 10 to 100 times larger and much bulkier so that many of them could no longer be eaten by the protists. This individual behaviour was successful.

Advanced light microscopy techniques have come into their own — and are giving scientists a new understanding of human biology and what goes wrong in disease ...

A Mélange of Microfauna The microbiome is a hot topic today because of its importance in digestive health. Imagine the microbiome you would need if you ate wood and little else. Here, you can see the ...