In water, soil and air all around us lives a free-living, single-celled organism called Acanthamoeba. Most of the time, Acanthamoeba keeps to itself. On rare occasions, though, the amoeba infects ...
Some deadly amoebas may be primed to invade the brain. Naegleria fowleri, known widely as the brain-eating amoeba, typically dine on bacteria in ponds. But the amoeba’s meal-seeking skills might make ...