But they didn’t feed like other microscopic vampires. The unicellular blobs engulfed and split apart Closterium algae cells, sucking out the insides and tossing the rest. “We just couldn’t b ...

Naegleriaviruses are taken up mistakenly as a food source but destroy their amoeba hosts within just few hours. They exhibit ...

We all begin existence as the simplest thing you can imagine if you’re trying to picture life: a single cell--nothing, in other words, but a tiny, spherical bag of proteins. In fact, the average ...

To understand the origins of multicelled life, researchers are studying a motley assortment of simpler animal relatives. The ...

The bacteria serve as a model system for studying the evolution of infectivity. The image shows two amoeba cells in pink that are infected with Parachlamydia (yellow/blue).

To restore the equilibrium, water from inside the cell membrane is expelled out to ... sometimes referred to as a ...

Because they're saying, well he did say lock her up. I find these single-cell amoeba-level intelligence individuals out there with no real ability to escape 2016's Trump Derangement Syndrome.

Cells manage a wide range of functions in their tiny package — growing, moving, housekeeping, and so on — and most of those functions require energy. But how do cells get this energy in the ...

Just one cell involves a membrane, huge DNA molecules that contain ... Work with ameba and bacteria is being conducted concerning symbiotic relationships among organisms. Usually an amoeba eats ...

Allen, R. D., “Amœboid Movement”, in Vol. 2 of “The Cell”, edit. by Brachet, J., and Mirsky, A. E. (Academic Press, in the press). Allen, R. D., Exp. Cell ...

While infection is rare, if water containing the amoeba is forced up a person’s ... metabolic pathway in certain types of brain cancer cells. HEX blocked enolase, an essential enzyme involved ...

To get a detailed picture of the cellular processes that differentiate normal versus cancer cells, researchers resort to conduct ... Single-celled bodies of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum ...