Researchers are warning of the "urgent need" to address a growing parasitic population ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a single-celled organism in the hot springs of Lassen Volcanic National Park, which is not only the first eukaryote to grow at 63 degrees Celsius (approximately 145 degrees ...

A man has been hospitalized with Naegleria fowleri, a single-celled amoeba that can cause deadly infections Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her work has previously appeared in ...

Lurking among them is a “giant” virus, a genetic behemoth that blurs the line between the living and the inanimate. When this ...

The so called brain-eating amoeba, or Naegleria fowleri, killed a South Carolina boy early in July after swimming in a lake there. Here's what you need to know about this highly deadly pathogen that ...

A video capturing the movement of Arcella as it travels across a glass surface. The scale bar represents 50 μm, and the playback speed is 10×. An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido ...

Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...

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(WJW) – A Missouri resident remains in intensive care at the hospital after health officials said she was infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba. According to the Missouri Department of Health and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Missouri resident is in the ICU with primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), an infection caused by the “brain-eating” amoeba ...