The ocean contains a complex food web–the network of interactions among predators and prey that maintain healthy ecosystems .

Ishvar, often translated as God or the Supreme Being, occupies a unique place in Patanjali’s Yog Sutras. Far from being a ...

A Michigan woman living with sickle cell disease says her life may now be at risk after the CDC disbanded the team responsible for researching safe birth control for people with chronic conditions ...

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 ...

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 ...

Composed of a single cell, amoeba seem harmless enough: They look like playful critters waltzing under the spotlight of a microscope until they come upon a group of bacteria. Then, these previously ...

After all, amoebas don’t have mouths. Instead, when an amoeba finds food, it extends its false feet. The false feet wrap around the food and use enzymes to digest it. Any waste then diffuses back ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their discovery sparked debates over the definition of viruses and the origins of life. An amoeba cell infected by Naegleriavirus. The fluorescence microscopy image shows the viral factory and newly ...

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