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

Strategy for discovering protist – bacterial interactions in the ocean. The strategy relied on working at-sea where uncultivated cells could be interrogated without any form of fixation. The cartoon ...

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 ...

Ancoracysta is a protist, a group of unicellular, eukaryotic organisms that sit at the root of the eukaryotic tree of life. For researchers such as Janouškovec, they are an ... After a year teaching ...

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 ...

The disease is caused by a pathogenic protist that has somehow travelled thousands of miles to infect its hosts. The parasite in question is called Maullinia, and only a handful of studies have ...