Ingmar Riedel-Kruse and his team at Stanford University have created several “biotic games” using biological processes (video below). The first type of game manipulates paramecium with electricity or ...

Paramecium or paramecia are single-celled protists that are naturally found in aquatic habitats. They are typically oblong or slipper-shaped and are covered with short hairy structures called cilia.

Ciliates are unique among unicellular organisms in that they separate germline and somatic functions 1. Each cell harbours two kinds of nucleus, namely silent diploid micronuclei and highly polyploid ...

In the world of video games (and multi-cellular organisms), characters such as Cloud Strife from Final Fantasy VII come off as the ultimate protagonist. He's genetically enhanced and carries a big ...

Considered as an obsolete theory for many years, the transmission of acquired traits has returned to the forefront of debate thanks to the development of epigenetic research. In this context, a team ...

When two organisms live together so closely that they merge into a functional unit, this is known as symbiosis. In the "1+1=1" project, an international, interdisciplinary research team is ...

Robotics World’s first ciliary microrobots could change the way we take medicine September 17, 2016 The new type of highly maneuverable microrobot uses a propulsion system inspired by the ciliated ...

This week’s tip is adapted from a commencement speech I gave recently at the University of Pennsylvania. You can watch the entire speech here. The paramecium is an amazing organism. It survives and ...

A mesmerising time-lapse clip that swept across X (formerly Twitter) and Instagram, purporting to depict the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS hurtling through space, has been definitively exposed as a ...

The paramecium is an amazing organism. It survives and thrives using just one basic principle: If things are getting better, keep swimming in that direction, and if not, change course. If the water’s ...