Brain infections caused by so‑called brain‑eating amoebas have long been treated as medical curiosities, terrifying but vanishingly rare. That framing is starting to look dangerously outdated. As the ...

A video capturing the movement of Arcella as it travels across a glass surface. The scale bar represents 50 μm, and the playback speed is 10×. An international team of researchers led by Hokkaido ...

Scientists are calling for urgent action on free-living amoebas – a little-known group of microbes that could pose a growing ...