“These single-cell organisms can do things that we assume ... Little work has been done to explore why the protists form these colonies. Dr. Shekhar and his colleagues first examined the ...

Scudder’s book, Mother, Creature, Kin: What We Learn From Nature’s Mothers in a Time of Unraveling. My day-to-day parenting to-do list often goes something like: clean up endlessly after an ...

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

archaea (a less-studied division of life-forms formerly considered bacteria), protists (mostly single-celled algae and protozoans), and fungi. The vast majority of these members are microscopic in ...

Stentor coeruleus is a giant unicellular, filter-feeding protist that uses the coordinated ... who’ve spent years trying to understand how solitary single-celled organisms began living in ...

Farooq Azam and Francesca Malfatti review important early developments, such as the microbial-loop concept, and outline the challenges that are associated with understanding cell-to-cell ...

These structures are highly conserved across species, from single-celled protists to humans, and are composed of a core microtubule-based structure known as the axoneme. Cilia and flagella are ...

Dip2 maintains the level of a specific DAG subpopulation, required for the activation of PKC-mediated cell wall integrity pathway ... (D) Serial dilution assay for single knockouts of bulk DAG acting ...

Research on gastrointestinal diseases, especially cancer, has mainly focused on epithelial cells, which line the surfaces of ...