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protozoan

proh tuh zoh uhn

  • n  any of diverse minute acellular or unicellular organisms usually nonphotosynthetic
  • a  of or relating to the Protozoa

  • Working with Tetrahymena, a pond protozoan, Blackburn and her then graduate student Carol Greider co-discovered telomerase, an enzyme that regulates the activity of telomeres, or .
  • But about one-quarter of last year's fatalities have been traced to a pair of protozoan parasites, Toxoplasma gondii and Sarcocystis neurona, that are known to breed in cats and .
  • Once inside the body, the kala-azar protozoan invades and weakens the immune system, causing fever, weight loss, anemia and enlargement of the spleen.
News & Articles

  • Illinois receives Grand Challenges Explorations grants
    ( University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ) Two Illinois professors, Daniel Rock and Mark Kuhlenschmidt, are receiving Grand Challenges Explorations grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for research on single dose perpetual livestock vaccines and a system to study the dangerous protozoan Cryptosporidium.
    Nov. 20, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Quotes

  • Reynolds Price in Telegraph-Journal
    The novelist Reynolds Price writes,"The root of story sprang from need - need for companionship and consolation by a creature as vulnerable, four million years ago and now, as any protozoan in a warm brown swamp."

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