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

Is it defying any laws? It doesn’t make sense.” With a combination of microscopy and live imaging, Flaum and Prakesh found that the protist’s long proboscis is covered in long polymers ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are studying the ways certain genetic elements hide and make copies of themselves, so they can ...

Via a more detailed analysis of the genetic material, the researchers were able to most probably correctly classify the new species into different types of protist groups. To achieve this ...

Imagine a bustling city inside your body, filled with countless tiny beings working around the clock. This city is your gut—a ...

From Massachusetts to Mississippi, a unicellular protist is hinting at answers about the evolution of multicellularity while raising a whole new set of questions. From Massachusetts to Mississippi ...

The millimeter-long freshwater protist spends much of its life fastened to drifting algae, using hairlike cilia on its body to sweep food into its mouth. Jennings messed with S. roeseli ...

Here, we investigated how soil amendments affect protist communities and inferred potential interactions with bacteria and fungi. Specific fertilization treatments impacted both the structure and ...

The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in the DNA code signaling the end of a gene, suggesting the need for further research to better understand this group of diverse ...

Next, Carpenter places the sample under the microscope and the search for a picture-perfect protist begins. Working quickly, he can take 20 to 50 photographs an hour, although the process is often ...