Some protozoa infect the brain of their host, shaping its behavior in ways most suited to the pathogen, even if it leads to the suicide of the host THE ANCIENT DEBATE surrounding the existence of free ...

The undisputed finality of life belies the inherent complexity behind the processes of cellular demise. Metazoan cell death functions in wide-ranging physiological processes and can occur by distinct, ...

Pathogenic intestinal protozoa are responsible for clinically important infections in both the developed and the developing world. These organisms are responsible for both acute and chronic diarrhea, ...

Researchers have analyzed drinking water and detected oocysts of Cryptosporidium and cysts of Giardia, two protozoa that cause outbreaks of diarrhea in humans. The levels detected are very low and do ...

Biologists have developed a sensor that employs one-celled protozoa to detect toxins in water sources. The new technique works by introducing protozoa into small chambers with water samples taken from ...

"Zoom, zoom, zoom! You make my heart go Boom, Boom, Boom." SEE ALSO: 11 TV stars from the '90s that you most definitely had a crush on Protozoa from "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century" was basically the ...

Protozoa and bacteria form one of the oldest predator–prey systems on earth, but apart from reports on phenotypic changes (Jürgens and Matz, 2002; Pernthaler, 2005) surprisingly little is known on the ...

A first time survey of free-living protozoa in meat-cutting plants showed high diversity rates of various species including those that could harbor food-borne pathogens say researchers from Ghent ...