Scientists have discovered the use of a simple single-celled amoeba to understand the function of human proteins in causing Alzheimer's disease.
Jan 23, 2014
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The amoeba Naegleria fowleri is commonly found in warm swimming pools, lakes and rivers. On rare occasions, the amoeba can infect a healthy person and cause severe primary amebic meningoencephalitis, a "brain-eating" disease ...
Sep 13, 2018
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(Medical Xpress) -- Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibiotics—and save lives—as the power of our antibiotics arsenal wanes. But ...
Jan 23, 2012
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Plague is a highly contagious disease that has killed millions of people over the past 1,400 years. Outbreaks still sporadically occur in as many as 36 countries worldwide. Perhaps one of the greatest remaining mysteries ...
Feb 26, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Miltefosine, a potentially life-saving experimental drug to treat people infected with a rare but deadly brain-eating amoeba, is now available to U.S. doctors directly from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control ...
Aug 22, 2013
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Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London are looking at ways of testing the side effects of new drugs without using animals.
Oct 10, 2012
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Naegleria fowleri—commonly known as "the brain-eating amoeba"—can be found in warm fresh water. It's a single-celled, free swimming animal that reaches the brain through the nasal passageway by traveling up the olfactory ...
Sep 9, 2021
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A swim in an unsanitary body of freshwater on private property in Broward County has resulted in a resident's hospitalization for a deadly infection caused by a brain-eating amoeba, health officials announced this week.
Aug 12, 2016
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The State Department of Health says a swimmer has died after coming into contact with a rare amoeba in a southern Oklahoma lake.
Aug 13, 2015
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Last summer, a 74-year-old resident of San Francisco's Chinatown was admitted to San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center with fever and disorientation, which rapidly degenerated into a coma.
Sep 10, 2015
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