This stain makes it possible to select the protists that interest the researchers: those eating other things. After separating out the individual protists, the researchers then identify the ...

It’s thanks to these microscopic organisms that we breathe and eat fish. Protists eat phytoplankton, making all this organic carbon available for other organisms. Protists are the connection ...

At present, the only real treatment is to stop eating the food that causes symptoms ... other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less.