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An extremely rare infection has been passed from an organ donor to at least one recipient in what is thought to be the first human-to-human transfer of the amoeba, medical officials said Friday.
Signs warning of the dangers of a rare amoeba will be posted at Lake Havasu, telling swimmers to take precautions such as plugging their noses when they dive.
Recent tests have shown that a brain-eating amoeba is in Tucson's water supply, but experts say the microscopic bug doesn't pose any health risks.
It sounds like science fiction but it's true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.
Man infected with deadly warm-water amoeba A 22-year man was hospitalized Sunday with an infection caused by the same deadly amoeba that killed three Central Florida boys in 2007, according to the Orange County Health Department.
Oozing Through Texas Soil: Social, Clonal Amoebas...Billions StrongTexas can now boast what may be its most bizarre and undoubtedly its slimiest topper yet: the world's largest known colony of clonal amoebas. More Articles
Single-Celled Giant Upends Early EvolutionSlowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth.
A brief encounter and life eruptsScientists have identified the single chance encounter about 1.9 billion years ago to which almost all life on Earth owes its existence.
The Cheating Amoeba. That Amoeba is nothing but an altruistic, cheating piece of soilWhat genes contribute to social interactions such as cheating or altruism? And what could cheating genes tell us about sociality, multicellularity, and cancer? A social soil amoeba could hold the answers.
Murrieta firefighter dies from brain-eating amoeba A veteran Murrieta firefighter has died after being infected with a rare brain-eating amoeba that usually lives in soil, the city Fire Department said in a statement Tuesday.
This Friday, October 5, Bay News Nine reported a story based in Tucson, Arizona titled "Amoeba Doesn't Pose Health Risks". The information Bay News Nine received for this report was courtesy of the Arizona Daily Star.
Brain-Consuming Amoeba Claims Texan Lives: Are Your Freshwater Bodies Safe?Boy goes swimming, falls into coma. Family searches for answers about rare amoeba.
Immunity in social amoeba suggests ancient beginningsFinding an immune system in the social amoeba (Dictyostelium discoideum) is not only surprising but it also may prove a clue as to what is necessary for an organism to become multicellular, said the Baylor College of Medicine researcher who led the research that appears today in …
Altruism among amoebaSelfish and cheating members of amoeba communities are ostracized in order to ensure community viability.
Ancestor of Animals Breathes NitrogenThe earth is full of locales seemingly inhospitable to life. In areas like that deep beneath the ocean's mud floor, oxygen cannot penetrate.
A New Wave: Scientists Write on WaterA new technology allows researchers to write on water. The AMOEBA (Advanced Multiple Organized Experimental Basin), a circular tank created by Mitsui Engineering at their Akishima laboratory, is able form letters with standing waves.
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