An amoeba contributes to its own downfall. The research team led by Pierre Stallforth, professor at the University of Jena and head of department at the Leibniz-HKI, has now identified a ...

Rhabdamoeba marina (R. marina) is a small marine amoeba, first discovered and described in England in 1921. The amoeboid cells of R. marina, characterized by their near immobility, can produce ...

Time-lapse photography confirmed the amoebas were vampyrellids. But they didn’t feed like other microscopic vampires. The unicellular blobs engulfed and split apart Closterium algae cells ...

3D structure of the social amoeba genome sheds light on the transition to multicellularity. Story by Oleg Sherbakov • 3w. ... "Dictyostelium is a unicellular creature.

These unicellular amoeba behavior studies and many multicellular experiments follow the experimental conditioning concepts established by the Russian-Soviet researcher Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936).

"Amoeba is a unicellular free-living organism. Since it has no cell wall, it moves freely in the environment like water bodies and feeds on other bacteria or dead organisms.

A Texas woman died from a rare brain-eating amoeba after using tap water in a sinus rinse, a CDC report says. Here's what to know about the often fatal infection.