The first event was roughly 2.2 billion years ago. This is when a single-celled organism called archaea swallowed up a bacterium that eventually became the mitochondria. This specialized organelle ...

New Scientist recently reported on something I’d never heard of before: Stentor coeruleus, a single-celled organism that is up to 2 millimetres in length. It is a protist – a single-celled ...

LUCA, short for Last Universal Common Ancestor, is believed to be the single-celled organism from which all life on Earth descended. Estimated to have existed around 4.2 billion years ago ...

For example, the larger a cell becomes, the greater the surface area required to absorb the nutrients and energy needed to sustain such a large organism. “This bacterium breaks these rules by ...

To see if they could give a single-celled organism a solar-powered rhodopsin ... With this vacuolar rhodopsin, the yeast grew roughly 2 percent faster when it was exposed to light.

In his famous letter to the Royal Society dated Oct. 9, 1676, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek described a single-celled eukaryote (Vorticella) and its fascinating ultrafast cell contraction as the first set ...

The radiating, kaleidoscopic pattern you see here was once the living glass skeleton – the cell wall – of a single-celled organism called a diatom ... as blue and green are farther from the viewer (2) ...