Organisms are products of the environments they live and evolve in. While the physical world is governed by universal laws ...

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 ...

A chromosome-level genome assembly of the newly named marine amoeba Lemnamoeba sinaloensis reveals a compact 27 Mb genome ...

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

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

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 ...

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

A microscopic organism with a track record of causing nearly-always fatal infections may finally have met its match in the ...

In 1972, two scientists wrote a paper hypothesizing that life more complex than bacteria cannot live in temperatures above 140 degrees Fahrenheit. That led to a scientific rule-of-thumb that persisted ...

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