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A 73-year-old woman from Nellikuzhi in Kothamangalam in Ernakulam district of Kerala has died of primary amoebic ...

There’s a sinister health threat we’re not taking seriously enough, a new paper argues – and it’s not a virus, bacterium, nor even a fungus. It’s the amoebae, free-living organisms that can survive ...

Amoebae, single-celled organisms common in soil, water and grade-school science classrooms, may play a key role in the survival and spread of deadly plague bacteria. New research shows that plague ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I have a confession to make -- even though I ...

Researchers have learned that the bacterium that causes bovine tuberculosis, called Mycobacterium bovis, is able to survive and grow in a type of single-celled organism called an amoeba, that lives in ...

Tap water, which we consume daily, can sometimes harbor surprisingly resistant microbes. This is what a recent publication reveals, drawing attention to microscopic organisms that are often overlooked ...

The amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum – often lovingly referred to as “Dicty”– is a sensitive creature: it can perceive even the tiniest variations in the chemical composition of its surroundings. This ...

The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a powerful social study system because of the hard work of generations of cell and molecular biologists who have figured out many of the mechanisms of its ...

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) and subsequently discovered giant viruses of amoebae challenge the previous definition of viruses and their classification. The replication cycle, structure, ...

image: Reconstitution of Amoebozoa's evolution shows significant Precambrian species diversity. This study changes the view of how life evolved in the very remote past and deepens the understanding of ...