The Environmental Protection Agency is worried about a lot of things in our water — polychlorinated biphenyls, dibromochloropropane, Cryptosporidium parvum — to name just a few of the dozens of ...

I always jump at the chance to learn about a new microbe, and I’ve got a soft spot for protists - you know, the little guys that live in pond scum. Recently, I ran across a group of protists called ...

Researchers investigating how single-celled organisms evolved to become multicellular stumbled across a strange phenomenon during their experiments: Single-celled eukaryotes called choanoflagellates, ...

What do humans and single-celled choanoflagellates have in common? More than you'd think. New research into the choanoflagellate genome shows these ancient organisms have similar levels of proteins ...

This week, the international journal ‘Science’ featured a colony of choanoflagellates on its cover. Choanoflagellates are marine protists (single-celled eukaryotes) characterized by a single long ...

The harsh conditions of Mono Lake—including its salty waters and the presence of toxins like arsenic and cyanide—may have played a key role in shaping the evolution of this unusual species. (CREDIT: ...

After observing unusual microorganisms that had been collected in Curaçao, researchers saw a strange thing; sheets of these unicellular organisms gathered together in a pattern though they normally ...

The next time you go wild swimming, whether in a lake, river or sea, you are probably sharing the water with one of your tiniest, yet closest relatives. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest ...

When people die, our whole body dies with us. The heart stops pumping; the gut stops digesting; every cell that carries a person’s genetic blueprint eventually extinguishes, until their molecular ...