Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...

perkinsii, or that it has evolved those characteristics independently. The investigators noted that this study ... C. perkinsii is an ancient type of protist; protists are a collection of unicellular ...

Scientists used genes from unicellular protists to reprogram mouse cells into stem cells. These cells developed into a living ...