"For the first time in the world, we have succeeded in continuously visualizing the events that are believed to occur in ...

It was previously thought that learning behaviours only applied to animals with complex brain and nervous systems, but a new ...

A new study suggests that even single-celled organisms, like amoebae, and individual cells within the human body, might be ...

Cells, such as those making up human bodies, might be capable of 'learning', once deemed exclusive to complex creatures with ...

Up until recently, habituation -- a simple form of learning -- was deemed the exclusive domain of complex organisms with brains and nervous systems, such as worms, insects, birds, and mammals. But a ...

Researchers suggest "one daring idea" would be to apply the concept of habituation to the relationship between cancer and immunity.

A dog learns to sit on command, a person hears and eventually tunes out the hum of a washing machine while reading … The capacity to learn and adapt ...

A new study demonstrates that even simple single-cell organisms, such as ciliates and amoebae, exhibit habituation, a basic ...

The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases.

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all the importance of educating the public about viral infections. Besides educating the general public, we need to equip the next generation of scientists by ...

The researchers sought to visualize how the Mimivirus infects a microbe called Acanthamoeba. It is difficult to visualize ...

DOI: 10.1128/jmbe.00138-24 It is difficult to visualize amoebae under a microscope since they are constantly moving in a liquid medium; therefore, they used a modified growth medium containing a ...