The poorly understood Fonticula alba, a relative of fungi and animals, hunts bacteria with a mechanism that resembles cancer and fungal growth.

A pathogenic amoeba species ingests parts of human cells and steals human cell membrane proteins to display on its own surface.

The Tupanvirus is named for the South American Guarani God of Thunder.

Scientists create an amoeba-inspired robotic cell, with photo-responsive DNA that allows it to move when exposed to light.

A new species of amoeba, Arcella gandalfi, is covered in a shell that resembles a wizard’s hat.

Dictyostelium discoideum produce extracellular nets that can kill bacteria, just as phagocytes in people and other higher animals do, according to a study.

What researchers are learning as they sequence, map, and decode species’ genomes

The intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica kills host cells by tearing pieces from them, which it then eats.