In a series of experiments that began with amoebas—single-celled organisms that extend podlike appendages to move around—Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have identified a genetic pathway ...

Researchers have identified a genetic pathway that could be activated to help sweep out mucus from the lungs of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The discovery came from a series of ...

Scientists found an amoeba in a Lassen Volcanic National Park hot spring that grows and divides at 63 degrees Celsius (145.4 Fahrenheit), the highest temperature ever recorded for complex life. The ...

A tiny, single-celled organism can thrive at temperatures that would kill all other known complex life. In a study published in Cell, scientists describe a new species of amoeba that can eat and ...

Life finds a way—even in some of the most inhospitable environments on Earth. Scientists have just discovered a species of amoeba that can endure hot temperatures previously thought impossible for any ...

A research team of the Cluster at the Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology—Hans Knöll Institute (Leibniz-HKI) and the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena has studied ...

Some deadly amoebas may be primed to invade the brain. Naegleria fowleri, known widely as the brain-eating amoeba, typically dine on bacteria in ponds. But the amoeba’s meal-seeking skills might make ...

Host cells infected with giant viruses behave in a unique manner. To gain deeper insight into the infection mechanism of giant viruses, scientists developed a specialized algorithm that can track the ...