A microscopic organism from a freshwater pond is playing by a different set of genetic rules. The newly identified protist, ...

A survey of more than 2,600 human fecal and tick samples from Hebei Province, China, has detected DNA from Colpodella, a free ...

Scientists accidentally discovered a microscopic organism with a genetic code that breaks a rule researchers thought was ...

This valuable study substantially improves the phylogenetic framework for Kinetoplastea through greatly expanded sampling of free-living neobodonids; the phylogenomic analyses provide convincing ...

In water, soil and air all around us lives a free-living, single-celled organism called Acanthamoeba. Most of the time, ...

Cut the power, and the machine stops. That was part of the motivation behind a four-year effort to map all the proteins in ...

A team of micropaleontologists argues that Oligocene fossils found in Miocene rocks in southern Spain were reworked by ...

Nikon has disqualified the first-place winner of its Small World in Motion microscopy video competition after determining the entry violated ...

The ocean’s smallest organisms may hold solutions for medicine, sustainable industry and environmental protection. New tools ...

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Protists are a diverse, polyphyletic assemblage of predominantly unicellular eukaryotic organisms that do not fit within the traditional kingdoms of animals, plants, or fungi and are therefore used as ...