Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have ...

In 1897 Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov proved that animals can be trained using associative learning. A new study finds ...

Protists represent a remarkably diverse group of unicellular and simple multicellular eukaryotes that occupy a broad spectrum of ecological niches. Recent advances have greatly enhanced our ...

A team of pathologists, geneticists, immunologists and engineers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has found a previously unrecognized diversity of protists in the Parabasalia phylum in ...

In the world of microbes, organisms like viruses and bacteria get a lot of attention. But now, researchers are beginning to study other unicellular life forms, like archaea, and protists. Protists ...

Scientists testing a new method of sequencing single cells have unexpectedly changed our understanding of the rules of genetics. The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with The Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, ...

Among the large cast of microbiome players, bacteria have long been hogging the spotlight. But the single-celled organisms known as protists are finally getting the starring role they deserve. A group ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Bicosoecids were shown off fairly recently- ...