In fact, the amoeba is the most basic of all organisms. It consists of just one cell. Its basic structures consist of a fluid called cytoplasm. The cytoplasm in the amoeba occurs in two forms.

The study of these amoeba-associated microbes provided novel insights in the evolution of pathogenicity and the molecular mechanisms underlying the interaction with eukaryotic host cells (Cazalet ...

Instead, the bacteria are released intact from vacuoles into an amoeba's cytoplasm, where they proliferate inside the cell. In such cases, bacteria can become resistant to treatments designed to ...

Enter the soil-dwelling amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum, which has long been studied to understand cell movement and communication. The scientists pumped lab-grade cigarette smoke through a tube ...

"Maybe, by leaving dead cells around, the amoebae suppress inflammation that might otherwise hurt them," Petri said. A better understanding of how this amoeba kills cells might lead to ways to ...

"Maybe, by leaving dead cells around, the amoebae suppress inflammation that might otherwise hurt them," Petri said. A better understanding of how this amoeba kills cells might lead to ways to ...

"Maybe, by leaving dead cells around, the amoebae suppress inflammation that might otherwise hurt them," Petri said. A better understanding of how this amoeba kills cells might lead to ways to ...

cell by cell. The amoeba—about the tenth of a size of a dust mite—infects 50 million people worldwide and kills as many as 100,000 each year. But new research has revealed why it’s so deadly ...

Their amoeba battle strategy is detailed in a study ... “It can kill anything you throw at it, any kind of human cell.” Ralston is the new paper’s first author, but she first began studying ...

New research from a group of international climate scientists shows that so-called "zombie viruses" once revived, can infect amoeba cells. The study, published in the open journal Viruses ...