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 ...

It is a really powerful tool. We hope to determine which immune cells and pathways are moderated by protists and whether the moderation is beneficial. We also want to know how protists are ...

A Japanese group recently used a whole-genome amplification technique to recover symbiotic uncultured termite group 1 (TG1) bacteria from single host protist cells 5. These protists form part of ...

A predatory protist selected and sorted (separated from all other free-living creatures and particles) at sea using patterns of how laser light scatters from the cell and fluorescence staining. Credit ...

My research examines the origin and evolutionary history of eukaryotic cells. I work with 'protists', that is, all those eukaryotes that are NOT animals, plants or fungi. Most protists are ...