These shape-shifting microbes can harbour deadly pathogens, and climate change is helping them spread.
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The risk is very small, but for people who do become infected, this illness is nearly always fatal.
A ‘brain-eating amoeba’ might sound like a science fiction creature. Unfortunately, it’s real – and while infections are rare, they are usually fatal.
The brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri kills 97% of its victims, and infections are almost impossible to diagnose quickly. Here is how it kills.
Where do plague bacteria go between outbreaks? Research demonstrates that they can survive and replicate inside amoebae that are widely present in soil and water worldwide.
They may be single-celled organisms, but as our distant cousins amoeba can tell us a lot about ourselves.
Amoebas are ancient bugs that predate multicellular organisms that often hide in water and mud.
Many therapeutic drugs and toxins affect us without us knowing exactly how. We know, for example, that Epilim, or sodium valproate, one of the most highly prescribed medicines for epilepsy can prevent…
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