Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host their own microbiomes. In new research published this week in Cell Host ...

To get around this problem, Worden developed a method for examining individual protist cells fresh out of the ocean using equipment brought onto research vessels – rather than in stable ...

It is a really powerful tool. We hope to determine which immune cells and pathways are moderated by protists and whether the moderation is beneficial. We also want to know how protists are ...