A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

In a shallow pond at Oxford University Parks, surrounded by dog walkers and rowing crews, a single-celled organism has been ...

Rule-breaking discovery: Researchers found a pond protist that reassigns all three standard genetic stop codons to amino ...

Mitochondria are very well known as the powerhouses of the cell. Generally speaking, all eukaryotes, including plants, fungi, and animals, are made of cells that contain mitochondria. These organelles ...

Protists are grouped together in part because they don't fit neatly into any other category of organism; they are eukaryotes, but they are not a plant, animal, or fungus. For the most part, they tend ...

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 ...

Scientists testing a new method of sequencing single cells have unexpectedly changed our understanding of the rules of genetics. The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in ...

Climate change is raising surface temperatures of natural waters, increasing concern about pathogenic species in aquatic environments that can infect humans ...

Pac-Man, the open-mouthed face of the most successful arcade game ever, is much more well-known than any of the one-celled organisms called protists, at least among people over 30. But the first study ...

Endosymbiosis between protists and bacteria represents a fundamental biological phenomenon that has shaped the course of eukaryotic evolution. These intimate associations, in which one organism ...