Endomyxa comprises a diverse range of protists, including intracellular parasites that infect animals and plants, as well as ...

Researchers have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater collected near Hachijojima Island. The newly discovered species, named Viscidocauda repens, belongs to the ...

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have identified a previously unknown species of unicellular organism in seawater ...

Marine bacteria control how much CO2 is stored in the oceans, by swimming after and degrading sinking particles that would otherwise remain stored in the ocean for millennia. Researchers have ...

Swarming is one of the principal forms of bacterial motility facilitated by flagella and surfactants. It plays a distinctive role in both disease and healing. For example, in urinary tract infections ...

You can no longer rely on inertia. It would be like a person trying ... Instead of breaststrokes, these bacteria rely on flagella, or tails, to swim. The flagella have a helical shape, like a spring, ...

Flagella had been in prison on the charges from her Sept. 14, 2023 arraignment until they were withdrawn. The house where the fire occurred was torn down. No one in the neighboring house was ...

“There’s no way Snowball Earth was real ... Even very small organisms that can propel themselves, such as cells with flagella, move more slowly in cold water. As a result, they encounter food less ...

We fixed them on a specific region of micro-scale beads using a device that has a perforated Parylene sheet separating a flagella solution from a no-flagella one. We have succeeded in attaching ...