With winter weather settling in, it's no surprise that people are already suffering from irritating colds and blocked noses. Struggling to breathe properly can really wipe you out, but people are ...

This could potentially expose individuals to a "brain-eating amoeba". If you also shoot the water "straight up", it provides the parasite with a direct route to its target, which could ...

Field investigations are underway in areas surrounding the boy's home. Amoebic meningoencephalitis is caused by *Naegleria fowleri*, a free-living amoeba found in warm, fresh water and soil. The ...

Amoebic meningoencephalitis is caused by Naegleria fowleri, a free-living amoeba found in warm, fresh water and soil, and infects people when it enters the body through the nose. According to the data ...

offering exciting new perspectives on the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving microbial symbiosis between prokaryotes and protists." This research marks a significant advance in the ...

Using the protista Dictyostelium, we demonstrate the evolutionary conservation of amoeboid durotaxis. Finally, these experimental phenomena are theoretically captured by an active gel model capable of ...

For a long time, Rickettsia spp. have been regarded as human pathogens vectored by blood-sucking arthropods, like the epidemic typhus agent R. prowazekii vectored by human body louse, the murine ...

Amoeboid cell types are fundamental to animal biology and broadly distributed across animal diversity, but their evolutionary origin is unclear. The closest living relatives of animals, the ...