Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists ...

The mystery of how multicellular life evolved has long baffled scientists, who’ve spent years trying to understand how ...

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

A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria. Yeast are unicellular fungi. They are used by brewers ...

Tetrahymena is a large unicellular protozoan with two nuclei ... The larger macronucleus, which is responsible for programming most of the cell's activities, is derived from a copy of the ...

Evolution 62, 436–451 (2008). King, N. The unicellular ancestry of animal development. Developmental Cell 7, 313–325 (2004). Kirk, D. L. A twelve-step program for evolving multicellularity and ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ...

Biological cells often possess thin, hair-like protrusions on their surface known as cilia, which serve various functions ranging from movement to sensing environmental signals. Researchers from ...

A single bacterium consists of just one cell. Not all bacteria are harmful. There are different unicellular organisms and types of bacteria. Yeast are unicellular fungi. They are used by brewers ...