An curved arrow pointing right. A single celled organism eating its prey, an inside view of a termite's gut, and a parasite going 'Alien' on its host took top honors in Nikon's Small World in ...

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Single-celled organisms that group together can generate stronger water currents to pull in food, a benefit that may have encouraged early life forms to assemble into colonies, according to a new ...

A new part of an ocean plant cell has been discovered that might revolutionize farming one day. The structure can take nitrogen and convert it into the ingredient that helps all organisms grow.

The researchers also discovered key differences in transcription factors and tyrosine kinases, suggesting that the amoeba’s proteins were being modified just as proteins are in distinct cell ...

By Jack Tamisiea For a creature made up of only a single cell, the stentor is a giant. This trumpet-shaped organism is among the largest unicellular organisms, stretching as long as a sharpened ...

Many mouths are better than one Stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism that can grow up to 2 mm long. In its native habitat of ponds or lakes, Stentor attaches its slender end (called ...