In the vast and often unseen world of microscopic life, a recent discovery may force scientists to rethink what it means to ...

Single-celled organisms called archaea aren't generally thought to cause human disease, but one species has been implicated in colorectal cancer ...

Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms. Genetically, however, there are significant differences between the two domains, especially regarding their cell envelopes and metabolic processes.

As kitten season continues to be overwhelming, I’m sure that those of you caring for the little ones have become aware that ...

Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic ...

E. coli is arguably the most well-studied organism on Earth, but scientists have now discovered a new behavior that’s almost never seen in bacteria. The normally single-celled organisms have ...

More information: Nico Schramma et al, Light-regulated chloroplast morphodynamics in a single-celled dinoflagellate, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas ...

Single-celled organisms set for greater role in gut health. Long cast as villains, some protists, such as Blastocystis, are potentially beneficial to human health. By. Anthony King 0 ...

Like all complex organisms, every human originates from a single cell that multiplies through countless cell divisions.

On a larger scale, this primordial egg drop soup may have shed light on the origins of life itself. While the evolution of single-celled organisms to multicellular beings was predicted to have ...