[Matt] Dig into your local pond, and you just might find one of the strangest, most mysterious organisms on Earth. Even here, smack in the middle of San Francisco, they're everywhere. What's that ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. What do single-celled organisms think about? The answer, apparently ...

Growth and feeding rates in Stentor coeruleus fed on Tetrahymena are described in relation to prey concentrations ranging from 10:1-50:1 at 15° C and 20° C. Feeding rate was independent of temperature ...

Humans like to think that being multicellular (and bigger) is a definite advantage, even though 80% of life on Earth consists of single-celled organisms—some thriving in conditions lethal to any beast ...

The numbers make it easy to understand why Stentor CEO and cofounder Oran Muduroglu got into the business of digital medical imaging: Each year in North America about 400 million medical cases are ...

Dutch consumer giant Royal Philips Electronics said it will pay $280 million to acquire Stentor, a California-based medical imaging start-up. The deal gives an immediate shot in the arm to the ...

Life emerged on Earth some 3.8 billion years ago. The “primordial soup theory” proposes that chemicals floating in pools of water, in the presence of sunlight and electrical discharge, spontaneously ...

It’s morning in early March, and Wallace Marshall---a towering, plaided-out cell biologist---is kneeling over a pond in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, digging through the muck. “What’s that smell?” ...

Stentor is a trumpet-shaped, single-celled organism that can grow up to 2 mm long. In its native habitat of ponds or lakes, Stento r attaches its slender end (called the holdfast) to leaves or twigs ...