Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as ...

Research in cell biology uses microscopic and molecular tools and examines all cell types, from unicellular organisms such as protozoa to the specialised cells that consitutute multicellular ...

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 ...

Ohio Wesleyan University’s Hanliang “Han” Guo, Ph.D., is the co-author of newly published research that “potentially provides fundamental insights of early evolution of multicellular organization.” ...

The physics of how a quirky pond organism filters the water for food provides new insights into a possible driver of early evolution.

Through microscope video, he captured the fluid dynamics of a stentor in a liquid-filled lab dish as the organism sucked in particles suspended in the liquid. He also recorded the fluid dynamics ...

“Our findings show that the genetic underpinnings of cell-to-cell cohesion and segregation—the ability for different cells to sort themselves into separate regions within a multicellular mass—existed ...

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