A new Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation-funded collaboration led by the Earlham Institute with SAMS, CCAP, and Aalborg ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. In new research published this week in Cell Host & ...

Coral bleaching has long been described at the scale of entire reefs: vast stretches of white skeleton where colorful ...

Biomaterials with extraordinary properties, such as spider silk, have so far been known primarily from animals. Researchers at the University of Salzburg in Austria have now deciphered a surprising ...

Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: Although the single-celled, free-living protist Naegleria fowleri is typically harmless, it can become extremely deadly if it enters the nasal cavity ...

Benthic foraminifera are single-celled marine protists that inhabit the seabed and build calcareous or agglutinated tests. Their widespread distribution and rapid environmental sensitivity make them ...

A new study shows that multicelled organisms like the metazoan daphnia (pictured) require a tenfold increase in energy compared with protists for their growth, maintenance and survival. The high cost ...