The COVID-19 pandemic led to heightened public interest in learning about viruses and how they can cause diseases. There has ...

We know that viruses infect cells, but what does that process actually look like? Sure, diagrams can be helpful, but there’s ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us all the importance of educating the public about viral infections. Besides educating the general public, we need to equip the next generation of scientists by ...

While healthy Acanthamoeba cells are initially moving around, they gradually slow down and come to a stop following Mimivirus infection. As the amoeba cells stopped moving, the researchers ...

This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...

They are to prokaryotes what a human is to an amoeba. And while bacteria never form anything more complex than chains or colonies of identical cells, eukaryotic cells aggregate and cooperate to ...

A case of a rare brain-eating amoeba has been confirmed in Florida, according to health officials in the US state. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) said one person in Hillsborough County had ...