Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

Scientists have found strange yellow growths called galls on kelp in Latin America, southern Africa, and Australasia. The disease is caused by a pathogenic protist that has somehow travelled thousands ...