In a recent study published in Cell, researchers elucidated mechanisms by which a bacterial organism and plant pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae, kills amoeba predators. The process involves a ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. “This last percentage is made up of cells called sentinel cells,” study coauthor Thierry Soldati of the University of Geneva in Switzerland said ...

Naegleriaviruses are taken up mistakenly as a food source but destroy their amoeba hosts within just few hours. They exhibit a structure familiar in giant viruses, infecting host cells via a so ...

While extremely rare, Naegleria fowleri — or brain-eating amoeba — can cause an almost always fatal infection, according to the CDC A 2-year-old boy has died one week after battling Naegleria ...

Some cell-shocking facts about these microscopic organisms — they may lack bones, bravado, or branding, but they are among ...

The Florida Department of Health urged the public to only use sterile water or saline when doing a nasal rinse A Florida man has died from Naegleria fowleri, or brain-eating amoeba, after rinsing ...

The study is published in the journal Cell. Investigation into how microorganisms ... involved in the infection process of the plant, the amoeba is an important predator that forces the bacterium ...

This allows us to get down to the world of the cell, and that means some pretty amazing things can be seen. Here's an amoeba engulfing red blood cells and red and white blood cells moving through ...