This amoeba can be found naturally all over the ... U.S. health officials have identified about 180 infections from the single-cell organism since the first one was diagnosed in 1956.

This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...

The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks ... Within hours, a structure known as a virus factory forms inside the amoeba cell, replicating viral genetic material outside the nucleus ...

The team is looking at using amoebae – single-celled organisms – to produce polyketides such ... both methods require many genetic modifications to do so. The novel use of amoeba has the advantage ...