These freshwater swimming holes are great, but they come with a hidden danger. While it's very rare, it can be deadly – a brain infection by a microbe widely known as the "brain-eating amoeba". The ...

While it's very rare, it can be deadly—a brain infection by a microbe widely known as the "brain-eating amoeba." The pathogen in question is called Naegleria fowleri. The "brain-eating" part ...

Be it with animals, people, aliens, or amoebas, Larson consistently found a way to create images that got a laugh out of readers, cementing his place in the history of comic art. On the page ...

Naegleria fowleri amoeba feeds on bacteria and grows in warm, fresh water sources — it can cause amoebic meningitis, a rare but usually fatal disease which destroys a person’s brain tissue. The ...

A team led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers has identified a key mechanism responsible for endosomal recycling ...

The grand challenge in structure-based drug design is achieving accurate prediction of binding free energies. Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations enable modeling of conformational changes critical to ...

While it's very rare, it can be deadly – a brain infection by a microbe widely known as the 'brain-eating amoeba'. The pathogen in question is called Naegleria fowleri. The 'brain-eating' part ...

Forget the traditional tubular shape—researchers are investigating a pearl-on-a-string formation for axons, unlocking new ...

A 'biological universe' exists in a gram of soil. Find out how the soil biota within this tiny universe transform energy, create and modify their habitat, influence soil health, and aid in the ...

The team believes that the structure was in use until the 8th century BCE, the middle of the period when the Kings of Judah ruled. A scarab seal from the 8th century BCE uncovered during the ...