This alarming discovery concerns a ciliate parasite, identified as the cause of mass ... creating conditions conducive to their growth and spread. For example, higher temperatures can accelerate the ...

The Utah Jazz must appear to the other 29 NBA teams like the overachieving kid in school who is always the first person to ...

The ciliate Spirostomum ambiguum, for example, learns to advertise mating fitness to suitors and rivals during the preconjugal courtship. Fitter suitors – “conspicuous consumers” – advertise their ...

Examples include ciliates stimulating the growth of their prey through a feedback mechanism. • Similarity of phagocytosis between small freshwater, or soil, amoebae and phagotrophic lymphocytes, such ...

Scientists have discovered a remarkable new form of symbiosis — a bacterium that lives inside a single-celled organism (a ...

Mysterious Blobs Found inside Cells Are Rewriting the Story of How Life Works Tiny specks called biomolecular condensates are ...

Combining experiments in microfluidic devices and computer simulation, this study provides a valuable analysis of the relevant parameters that determine the motility of (multicellular) magnetotactic ...

In a new study published in Science, a Belgian research team explores how genetic switches controlling gene activity define ...

Ciliates are a diverse group of single-celled organisms characterized by the presence of hair-like structures called cilia, which they use for movement and feeding. Recent research in ciliate ...

Straining blocks clarity. The harder we force things, the more we limit creativity, connection, and insight. Wu-wei is the ...

Our brain and eyes can play tricks on us—not least when it comes to the expanding hole illusion. A new computational model ...