“The Amoeba bag itself is indeed a walking billboard and one of the most successful marketing tools ever launched,” Dona Nichols, a San Jose State University journalism and mass communication ...

Collodictyon is not a virus, but it has gone viral. This obscure unicellular species, isolated from a lake in Norway, is fast becoming this year’s most talked about microbe. A cursory Google search of ...

Dictyostelium displays a unique life cycle comprised of unicellular amoeba that aggregate and develop into multicellular structures that harbor environment-stable spores under adverse conditions.

The transitional state of this social amoeba is intriguing ... "Dictyostelium is a unicellular creature. If there is not enough food, cells assemble into a single multicellular organism and ...

The other kind of multicellularity, called aggregation, is a temporary clustering of free-living cells, which happens with eerily cooperative slime molds and social amoeba, often in response to ...