Recent research in ciliate genomics and developmental biology has focused on understanding the unique genetic and reproductive mechanisms that govern these organisms. This includes the study of ...

The world's oceans are facing a silent but devastating threat. An international team of researchers has identified a pathogen responsible for the mass mortality of sea urchins, which are essential ...

Systems Biology of Intelligence: Reconstructing the Emergence of ... can also exhibit associative learning and anticipation. The ciliate Spirostomum ambiguum, for example, learns to advertise mating ...

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

Feb. 11, 2025 — A new study has discovered in mouse models that genes associated with repairing mismatched DNA are critical in eliciting damages to neurons that are ... 'Junk' RNA Segments Play ...

This finding raises fears that the pathogen—a waterborne ciliate—could spread further, to the Pacific Ocean. The researchers warn that this is a highly aggressive global pandemic, and are now ...

Feb. 12, 2025 — Scientists have uncovered the equipment that enables bacteria to survive exposure to antibiotics: a shuttling mechanism that helps a complex of proteins pump out a wide spectrum ...

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 ...

Enzymes are molecular machines that carry out the chemical reactions that sustain all life, an ability that has captured the attention of scientists like me. Crocodiles, monkeys, tigers, zebras ...

Computational biology and bioinformatics is an interdisciplinary field that develops and applies computational methods to analyse large collections of biological data, such as genetic sequences ...

This finding raises fears that the pathogen – a waterborne ciliate - could spread further, to the Pacific Ocean. The researchers warn that this is a highly aggressive global pandemic ...