But how then does a single-celled plant like Caulerpa grow without specialized cells communicating to guide the breaking of symmetry? "A main paradigm in cellular biology is that the internal ...

Recent breakthroughs in single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA), such as the recently developed “RevGel-seq” method, has revolutionized plant cell analysis. This technique, independent of special ...

Colorado State University scientists have developed the first genetic toggle switch that can turn specific genes on or off in ...

Recent research suggests that plants are far from the stationary ... This posits that all life, from the smallest single-celled organism and on upwards to the largest animals on Earth, possesses ...

a group of single-celled protists that live inside the guts of termites and other animals, have evolved to live quite happily without them. Almost all eukaryotic organisms, from plants and animals ...

Like bacteria, archaea are single-celled organisms ... between archaea and organisms whose cells contain a nucleus, such as plants and animals. In recent years, researchers have found growing ...

Almost all eukaryotic organisms, from plants and animals to fungi ... finds that multiple members of the oxymonads, a group of single-celled protists that live inside the guts of termites and ...

In new research published this week in Cell Host & Microbe, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in ...

Researchers found 230 new giant viruses in ocean samples. Some carry genes that hijack photosynthesis and metabolism.

(Green algae comes in many forms, from single-celled plants to complex multicellular seaweed.) Other than the fact that the ancient algae were about half the size of a modern unicellular Codium ...