New species of microscopic unicellular organisms (Papus ankaliazontas and Apiculatamorpha spiralis) have been found in fresh and salt lakes in Indonesia, Vietnam and Turkey. Further study of RNA ...

This trumpet-shape organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened pencil tip. But sometimes it has a hard time vacuuming up the swimming bacteria and ...

Protists, typically unicellular microscopic organisms that aren’t animals, fungi or plants, perform all functions within a cell. But animals are the ultimate delegators: some cells are assigned ...

Researchers have successfully created a living mouse using genetic tools from a microscopic organism that ... and functions in both animals and their unicellular relatives, such as choanoflagellates.