Unicellular fungi Yeast are unicellular fungi. They are used by brewers and wine-makers because they convert sugar into alcohol, and by bakers because they can produce carbon dioxide to make bread ...

The unicellular ancestor of animals may have harbored some of the molecular tools that its many-celled descendants use to coordinate and direct cell differentiation and function, scientists show ...

Anne W. Thompson, Rachel A. Foster, Andreas Krupke, Brandon J. Carter, Niculina Musat, Daniel Vaulot, Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Jonathan P. Zehr, Unicellular Cyanobacterium Symbiotic with a Single-Celled ...

Abstract This essay aims to shed new light on the relations between physiology and psychology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by focusing on the use of unicellular organisms as ...

According to the J. Craig Venter Institute, cloning whole bacterial genomes from one unicellular organism to another is a step toward creating a synthetic genome--a major goal of the institute.

Suicidal bacteria: Unicellular organisms occasionally poison themselves with a toxin Date: March 15, 2013 Source: Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Summary: The cyanobacterium Synechocystis ...

Unicellular organisms, such as microalgae, also age when they can no longer divide due to a lack of nutrients. The newly discovered mechanism enables old cells to rejuvenate and divide again after ...

Yet, Carpediemonas membranifera, a unicellular organism that lives on marine shorelines, misses genes that are vital to copying and distributing its DNA. Eelco Tromer, an evolutionary cell biologist ...