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 ...

Entamoeba histolytica is a single-cell parasite that causes intestinal disease, but sometimes invades the body, attacking cells and creating liquefying abscesses. UC Davis parasitologist Katherine ...

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 ...

But when the amoeba gets into humans ... fowleri amoebas are attracted to the chemicals that nerve cells use to communicate with one another. Once in the nose, the amoebas travel through the ...

This amoeba can be found naturally all over the ... U.S. health officials have identified about 180 infections from the single-cell organism since the first one was diagnosed in 1956.

But they didn’t feed like other microscopic vampires. The unicellular blobs engulfed and split apart Closterium algae cells, sucking out the insides and tossing the rest. “We just couldn’t b ...

Those ingested cell fragments, shining fluorescent green under her microscope, accumulated inside the amoeba. Her report that the parasite kills cells through this process, called "trogocytosis ...