Scientists are raising concerns about free-living amoebae, resilient microbes that can survive in water systems and enable ...

Scientists in Siberia have brought back to life a virus that stayed frozen in permafrost for 48,500 years. They pulled it from the ancient ice, thawed it in a secure lab, and watched it infect amoebae ...

Human norovirus and adenovirus, two major causes of viral gastroenteritis, can persist for extended periods inside ...

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A group of environmental and public health scientists is sounding the alarm on a largely overlooked but increasingly ...

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus (APMV) and subsequently discovered giant viruses of amoebae challenge the previous definition of viruses and their classification. The replication cycle, structure, ...

Amoebae, single-celled organisms common in soil, water and grade-school science classrooms, may play a key role in the survival and spread of deadly plague bacteria. New research shows that plague ...

The social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum is a powerful social study system because of the hard work of generations of cell and molecular biologists who have figured out many of the mechanisms of its ...

image: Reconstitution of Amoebozoa's evolution shows significant Precambrian species diversity. This study changes the view of how life evolved in the very remote past and deepens the understanding of ...

Most eukaryotic microorganisms carry out sexual reproduction during their life cycles. Although significant progress has been made in the study of mating for several fungal species, little is known ...

The simple amoeba — a single-celled organism found in the water and soil — may provide a safe haven for the deadly bacteria that cause the plague, a new study finds. Plague bacteria (Yersinia pestis) ...