Since a landmark 2009 study, researchers have known that a common gut bacterium, Bacteroides fragilis, drives colon tumor ...

Mike Manson has spent 50 years at Texas A&M studying the bacterial flagellar motor - a molecular machine that spins hundreds ...

What unites animals, plants, fungi, and protists in the same domain is the fact that they’re all composed of eukaryotic cells ...

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 ...

For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient’s immune cells, ship them to a specialized ...

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...

Stratified marine systems are often characterized by a deep chlorophyll maximum (DCM); however, the taxonomic and functional dynamics of protist assemblages within this layer remain poorly understood.

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? “The discovery of S. arienae broadens our understanding of early eukaryotic evolution ...

A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare and morphologically unique unicellular eukaryote that sheds new light on ...

Even after decades of peering into cells, biologists are still finding surprises. In a twist, researchers at the University of Virginia and the National Institutes of Health uncovered a new organelle, ...