Just as humans can use mobile phones or notebooks for memory storage and recall, slime moulds can use slime. Granted, ...

Researchers at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland have made a remarkable discovery: the first giant virus ever isolated in the country. Jyvaskylavirus, is detailed in a recent study ...

The amoeba Polysphondylium pallidum, for instance, is a single-celled organism that feeds on bacteria. However, if food becomes scarce, the unicellular organisms aggregate to form multicellular ...

Individual-based models (IBM) explicitly describe the dynamics of individuals with multiple states like, for example, age, physiological variables such as size, the current spatial location or ...

The principles of three-dimensional organization of chromatin are known for only few model organisms. Here we describe the structure of chromatin and gene expression in the slime mold - Dictyostelium ...

This amoeba eats prey like owls do The microscopic predator engulfs algae, drains the cells and spits out the shell ...

A team of scientists from the Cluster of Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" has discovered a previously unknown rejuvenation mechanism in unicellular organisms. They studied unicellular ...

A now-retired doctor in Texas describes his experience treating a child with a brain-eating amoeba infection.

A 14-year-old boy from Kerala's Kozhikode died of a rare brain-eating amoeba infection called amoebic meningoencephalitis, when he reportedly swam in a pond. This is the third such death in the state ...

Dictyostelium discoideum is a free-living, fast-growing, unicellular amoeba. In the wild, it feeds on bacteria that grow on decaying vegetation.

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Researchers have rediscovered and successfully cultivating Rhabdamoeba marina -- a rare marine amoeba that has only been reported in two cases in the past century. Using this culture strain, they ...