Scientists have identified a pond-dwelling protist that breaks long-held genetic rules by reassigning two standard stop ...

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

Genetic rule breaker: A newly identified protist replaces two standard stop codons with amino acids, defying one of biology’s most consistent systems. Accidental discovery: Researchers found the ...

A research team from the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague has discovered Solarion arienae, an extremely rare and morphologically unique unicellular eukaryote that sheds new light on ...

Soil microbes are essential for soil fertility. However, most studies focus on bacterial and/or fungal communities, while the top-down drivers of this microbiome composition, protists, remain poorly ...

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 ...

From Massachusetts to Mississippi, a unicellular protist is hinting at answers about the evolution of multicellularity while raising a whole new set of questions. From Massachusetts to Mississippi, a ...