When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Protists are a diverse collection of organisms that do not fit into animal, plant, bacteria or ...

Environmental science has clearly entered the ‘era of the microbe’ during the past decade. At no other time in our history have we so completely grasped the immensity of microbial diversity or its ...

Scientists testing a new method of sequencing single cells have unexpectedly changed our understanding of the rules of genetics. The genome of a protist has revealed a seemingly unique divergence in ...