Few organisms rank lower in life than the gelatinous, pond-dwelling paramecium. It consists of one cell, two orifices, and thousands of hairy feet that project from its surface like beard stubble. Yet ...

Goldstein, L. 1949. Contribution a l'étude de la sensibilité héréditaire au gaz carbonique chez la Drosophile. Mise en évidence d'une forme nouvelle du génoide. Bulletin Biologique de la France et de ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Radiation Research publishes articles dealing with radiation effects and related subjects in the areas of physics, chemistry, ...

Using a high-powered electromagnet, Brown University physicists Karine Guevorkian and James Valles have created a topsy-turvy world for the single-celled paramecium. They have managed to increase, ...

THE influence of colchicine on cell division is now assumed generally as stoppage or freezing of mitosis ; while Dustin and his collaborators supposed that colchicine stimulates mitosis. In spite of a ...

Originally all members of a clone are of the same mating type; hence they do not conjugate together. At very long intervals (about 2,000 culture days), a clone may undergo self-differentiation into ...

Just last year, the World Wildlife Fund’s climate blog headlined that “Polar Bear Population in Canada’s Western Hudson Bay Unlikely to Survive Climate Disruption.” But it seems that since then this ...

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 ...