amoeba

One of the best-known examples is Naegleria fowleri, sometimes called the brain eating amoeba.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026

A thoroughly uninflected, completely random space is not natural; after all, even an amoeba has a nucleus.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

In fact, they immediately set themselves on the task of pleasing Carol and those like her, along with solving the riddle of their immunity, so they can absorb the stragglers into their joy amoeba.

From Salon ● Nov. 26, 2025

“The European Parliament is a bit like The Blob,” she said, referring to the 1958 film about a massive amoeba that threatens to destroy the world.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2024

And a free- swimming one-celled amoeba is much more sophisticated; with about four hundred million bits in its DNA, it would require some eighty 500-page volumes to make another amoeba.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The danger does not come only from the amoebae themselves.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026

They point to climate change, aging water infrastructure, and weak monitoring systems as factors that could allow dangerous amoebae to spread and become harder to control.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026

A team of environmental and public health scientists is raising concerns about a largely overlooked group of microscopic organisms that may pose a growing danger worldwide: free living amoebae.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026

Rising global temperatures are expected to make the problem worse by allowing heat loving amoebae to spread into regions where they were once uncommon.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 25, 2026

I suppose it all started when Lorraine and I and these two amoebae called Dennis Kobin and Norton Kelly were hot on those phone gags last September.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel

Rather, these events appear to be common across diverse organisms, from single-celled amoebas to complex multicellular animals.

From Science Daily ● May 21, 2024

Visitors to Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada are being warned against submerging themselves in the hot springs below the Hoover Dam due to the risk of infection by deadly brain-eating amoebas.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Although kelp behaves and looks like a plant, it’s a protist, the same group as single-cell amoebas.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 8, 2023

The viruses they found — of an unusually large type that infects amoebas — were last active thousands, and in some cases, tens of thousands of years ago.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2022

Fadi added a few finishing touches to his drawings of amoebas and other single-celled micro-organisms, which the class had been reviewing.

From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai