Eating ‘Family Style’ May Have Set the Stage for Life as We Know It
Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.
Nature29 天
Milestones in light microscopy
Whereas the very first microscopic organisms van Leeuwenhoek set eyes on were sweet water protist, the microecology of the oceans remains largely uncharted — a major knowledge gap given its ...
Natural History Museum%2c London4 年
Protist collection
The Natural History Museum microbiology collection includes extant protozoan protists. The microbiology collection of extant protozoan protists comprises mainly microscope slides but also small ...
Nature4 年
When it comes to food allergies, should we be pro-protist?
Our project will focus on protists: unicellular eukaryotic microbes that are actually quite large — you can see them swimming around under the microscope. Research has been mainly focused on ...
来自MSN4 个月
Scientists just used genes from a microorganism and created a mouse
Protists, typically unicellular microscopic organisms that aren’t animals, fungi or plants, perform all functions within a cell. But animals are the ultimate delegators: some cells are assigned ...
Knowridge Science Report1 天
Scientists find major cause of gut disease, diarrhea
In Singapore, scientists have been studying a particular subtype called Blastocystis ST7. This version of Blastocystis is ...
EurekAlert!1 个月
Connecticut college professor awarded NSF grant to advance research on microscopic organisms
New London, Conn. — A new National Science Foundation (NSF) grant will support a major effort to synthesize decades of research on protists—microscopic organisms that play a vital role in ...
EurekAlert!2 年
Protists such as this Euplotes are common in water, soil, even moss. (IMAGE)
Scientists say a few simple measures of a protist’s cell size and shape can be powerful predictors of how they might respond to global warming. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...