Search results for Protozoa

Paleontology & Fossils Aug 15, 2025

Fossil find in Syria: Unknown sea turtle discovered

Near the Syrian city of Afrin, an international research team, including researchers from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, has discovered a previously unknown ...

Biochemistry May 12, 2025

Enzymatic and genetic advances streamline synthesis of promising natural products

Natural products are among the most promising candidates for the development of new drugs. However, due to their structural complexity, they are often difficult to access.

Cell & Microbiology Apr 2, 2025

How Pseudomonas syringae uses a chemical radar to detect and kill amoebas

A research team of the Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI) and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena has studied the interaction between ...

Ecology Nov 20, 2024

Scientists discover a new giant virus that infects freshwater algae

Scientists from the Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences found forty new freshwater viruses infecting aquatic microorganisms this year. The first one, which they isolated and described in detail, was named Budvirus ...

Cell & Microbiology Aug 26, 2024

Investigating adaptive strategies of high and low nucleic acid prokaryotes

A research team conducted a 73-day large-volume Aquatron macrocosm experiment, utilizing flow cytometry and dilution experiments to thoroughly investigate the temporal changes and influencing factors in the abundance, growth ...

Ecology Aug 12, 2024

Bacteria's hidden hand in tick survival

A new study led by Prof. Yuval Gottlieb from the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has unveiled important information about the relationship between the brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus ...

Veterinary medicine Aug 8, 2024

Research findings suggest nilgai antelope are not carriers of bovine babesiosis

Nilgai, a non-native antelope species that freely ranges Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico, do not appear to be susceptible to infection following experimental exposure to Babesia bovis, according to recent findings ...

Environment Jul 17, 2024

For a century, it's been illegal to swim in the Seine. Will Paris's clean-up make the river safe for Olympic swimmers?

Five eagerly anticipated events in the Paris Olympics will be the mens and womens 10 kilometer marathon swimming races, as well as the 1,500 meter swimming section of three triathlon events. Why? Because all will be held ...

Environment Jul 11, 2024

Climate change may cause lake phytoplankton to become predatory, putting more CO₂ into the atmosphere

Plankton—tiny organisms that are present in salt and freshwater—account for about half of the photosynthesis on the planet. But what scientists have assumed for many years to be plant plankton (phytoplankton) may actually ...

Environment May 22, 2024

Academic calls for upgrade to sewage systems to protect health

The risk to public health from human feces in our rivers and seas will increase without action to create a wastewater system fit for the future, according to a Leeds academic.

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