Plants produce a wide diversity of compounds. Broadly, these are separated into primary metabolites, which are necessary for ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

Scientists are studying a unique type of bacteria that orients itself based on Earth's magnetic field and can't survive on its own.

Digging even deeper, to 600 million years old records, we find strata with soft-bodied Ediacaran animals but no hard-shelled invertebrates and no vertebrates. In one billion years old strata, we find ...

Under microscopes, scientists found that giant single-cell organisms were able to vacuum up more food when they are stuck together.

Captivating footage taken on January 31 in Hong Kong, China, captured the mesmerizing moment an amoeba consuming a ciliate. The video shows the amoeba slowly engulfing the single-celled organism ...

The oceans are home to innumerable creatures, from minute bacteria to the mighty blue whale. Amid this, there are various unicellular organisms which exist. These organisms have a single cell ...

Single-Celled Organism May Be First Free-Living Eukaryote Without Mitochondria Ever Discovered Mitochondria are essential components of eukaryotic cells… until they aren’t.

Lacrymaria olor is a single-celled organism, or protist, that lives in fresh water and hunts its prey with its extraordinarily extendible neck-like protrusion.

The US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has updated its research cell efficiency chart for a range of PV technologies.