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

In his manuscript, Kahl remarked upon rose-colored bacteria and green algae living within the body of P. tenue, but no one ever followed up on that peculiar observation, until now. In a study ...

by which a cell, like a protist, for some reason absorbs other living things to create something quite new in biology. Genetic analyses of algae conducted by Bhattacharya suggest that the pivotal ...

Plastids are core components of photosynthesis in plants and algae ... cells. Where did plastids originate? Their origin is explained by endosymbiosis, the act of a unicellular heterotrophic ...

Japanese researchers have achieved a breakthrough by inserting energy-generating chloroplasts from algae ... cell growth. The idea of animal cells adopting photosynthetic abilities may sound like ...