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, looked ...

WebMD explains what a brain-eating amoeba is, how it enters the body, how to prevent an infection with brain-eating amoeba, and more.

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 ...

Deadly brain-eating amoeba infections are increasing across the U.S. North, and it might be due to climate change. Researchers from the Ohio Public Health Association described in a case report ...

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 ...