UC San Diego researchers seem to have discovered a faster-acting, less toxic compound that can neutralize Naegleria fowleri.

Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a parasitic disease that causes the rapid deterioration of brain tissue, is one of ...

Yucatán health authorities have detected in six artificial lakes the same brain-eating amoeba that killed a 34-year-old man ...

UC San Diego researchers say rutamycin B, a compound isolated from marine bacteria, killed multiple strains of the ...

Incendiamoeba cascadensis can replicate at 145° F, breaking the heat tolerance record for eukaryotes, a domain of life that includes plants and animals.

A North Carolina teenager who died after contracting a rare brain infection caused by a microscopic amoeba was most likely exposed through contact with a water feature at a local community center, ...

Six lakes in Mérida tested positive for Naegleria after a fatal infection, prompting restrictions and renewed public-health ...

A child in Nebraska has died after developing a suspected infection from the so-called “brain-eating amoeba” Naegleria fowleri, likely caught while swimming in a river. The Centers for Disease Control ...

Health authorities in Mexico's Yucatan state have closed six artificial lakes in Merida after confirming the presence of ...

Scientists studying California geothermal waters have identified a "fire amoeba" that pushed past what had been treated as the temperature ceiling for complex life. Here's what to ...

In 1972, two scientists wrote a paper hypothesizing that life more complex than bacteria cannot live in temperatures above ...