Brain-eating amoeba infections expanding to Northern U.S.
Climate change may have contributed to the spread of infections in Kansas, Minnesota, Indiana, and other states farther north.
Tag: amoeba
Newly discovered virus turns amoeba into stone
Scientists have named it the Medusavirus.
Scientists use the world’s smallest chisel to investigate dagger-wielding bacteria
Amoebophilus doesn't play around.
This one amoeba could hold the secret to fixing immune deficiencies in humans
These predatory amoebas are usually very good at finding enough to eat by themselves, but when food is short they ...
Bacterial infections turns amoebae into the world’s tiniest farmers
In 2011 the Queller-Strassmann lab, then at Rice University, made a surprising announcement in Nature Letters. They had been collecting ...
Amoebas revolutionize our understanding of sex
Amoebas are the first eukaryotic creatures, they're about 1.000.000.000 years old, and still exist today, with a myriad of ...
Smart amoebas reveal origins of primitive intelligence
Intelligence is very hard to define as a trait, as it's usually a simplified term used to describe a quantum ...
