Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have made a remarkable discovery: the first giant virus ever isolated ...

Finnish scientists have identified the country's first giant virus, Jyvaskylavirus, in local soil. The virus infects amoebas ...

Some cell-shocking facts about these microscopic organisms — they may lack bones, bravado, or branding, but they are among ...

Micro decisions can have macro consequences. A soft matter physicist reveals how interactions within simple cellular ...

This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms ... But if you can form large groups of cells, now you’re too big to eat.” The new findings highlight how physical ...

A study from the Marine Biological Laboratory highlights how cooperative feeding by Stentor, a large unicellular organism, might have influenced the evolution of multicellular life. The research ...

These organelles, the descendants of bacteria that cosied up with the ancestors of human beings back when those ancestors were unicellular ... That is a number big enough to interest aspiring biotech ...

Usually cell division is of three types: (i) Amitosis (ii) Mitosis (iii) Meiosis Amitosis: This cell division takes place in less developed cell of unicellular organism and firstly nucleus of the ...

Fungal biology is the scientific discipline that concerns the biology of fungi, which include unicellular microorganisms as well as large multicellular organisms. Fungal biology is sometimes ...

Based on the fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding by Stentor, a relatively giant unicellular organism, the report is published in Nature Physics. "We took a step back in evolution, to when ...