How a heat-based therapeutic can be an alternative in the treatment of cutaneous leishmaniasis.
Protists
Gut protists aid our body’s defence against infections by influencing the immune system of far-reaching organs like the lungs.
Soils are packed with beneficial and pathogenic microbes. Beneficial protists can protect our crops by devouring pathogens!
Scientists discover a new giant virus with the potential to control a deadly pathogen.
Although scientists know a lot about soil, the same cannot be said about soil protists. Read about these peculiar microorganisms, and how they can help with identifying polluted land areas.
Uncover just how widespread and versatile protists can be thanks to metabarcoding.
Memory is generally used to describe behavior in organisms with a nervous system. However, a slime mold is capable of encoding the location of (past) food sources in its tube-like body!
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