Genetic rule breaker: A newly identified protist replaces two standard stop codons with amino acids, defying one of biology’s most consistent systems. Accidental discovery: Researchers found the ...

A routine experiment with a new single-cell DNA sequencing method turned into a surprising scientific twist when researchers ...

Scientists have identified a pond-dwelling protist that breaks long-held genetic rules by reassigning two standard stop ...

Researchers from the Earlham Institute, in collaboration with the Department of Biology at the University of Oxford, have discovered three previously unrecognized lineages of the protist Bodo, each ...

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, a team led by ...

Protists are a diverse, polyphyletic assemblage of predominantly unicellular eukaryotic organisms that do not fit within the traditional kingdoms of animals, plants, or fungi and are therefore used as ...

To better understand a carbon sink in danger, scientists are turning to tiny organisms that have long been overlooked. The humble peat bog conjures images of a brown, soggy expanse. But it turns out ...