The microbiology collection of extant protozoan protists comprises mainly microscope slides but also small numbers of registered specimens in spirit, embedded in resin (i.e. as transmission electron ...

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

10) A single-celled protist showing its ingested ... grown from a rodent. The cell bodies are stained blue. "I am fascinated by how the microscope and fluorescence can reveal such complex beauty ...

Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. In new research published this week in Cell Host ...

Dendritic cells constantly sample ... can see them swimming around under the microscope. Research has been mainly focused on disease-causing parasitic protists, and very little is known about ...