single-celled
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These images, captured by photographer Barry Webb, provide a close-up view of single-celled slime mould organisms.
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
That same sample was further tested using a bio-molecular method called 'ELISA', a technique in which antibodies bind to proteins produced by single-celled organisms.
From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025
The research draws inspiration from single-celled slime molds that self-organize when starving.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
The last common ancestor of plants and animals was a little single-celled organism that lived around 1.5 billion of years ago.
From Salon • Mar. 5, 2025
In principle, the single-celled embryo does possess all the genetic information to specify a full organism.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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