A tiny amoeba has broken a pretty big record. The newly discovered species of single-celled organism can divide and reproduce at a piping hot 63 degrees Celsius (145 degrees Fahrenheit), higher than ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy died from a brain-eating amoeba two weeks after a holiday weekend on a popular South Carolina lake. The brain-eating amoeba enters the body when water is forced ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A Houston-area teen is fighting for his life after a brain-eating amoeba entered his body while he was swimming at a local lake. Only a handful of people have ever survived the rare ...

A Wake County child died last Friday after developing an illness caused by an amoeba that is naturally present in freshwater, the state Department of Health and Human Services confirmed Tuesday. A ...

Scientists have discovered a single-celled organism in the hot springs of Lassen Volcanic National Park, which is not only the first eukaryote to grow at 63 degrees Celsius (approximately 145 degrees ...

The potentially deadly amoeba, commonly called the “brain-eating” amoeba, was found in St.Bernard Parish’s water supply for the second time in two years. The parish is about five miles outside of New ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Two weeks after Jaysen Carr spent the Fourth of July swimming and riding on a boat on one of South Carolina’s most popular lakes, he was dead from an amoeba that lives in the ...

(FORT WORTH, Texas) — A 10-year-old girl is fighting for her life at a Texas hospital after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba while swimming in a river. Lily Mae Avant spent Labor Day weekend ...

Ushikuvirus, an amoeba-infecting giant virus, joins the family of giant viruses that may have driven the evolution of complex cells. The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and ...