KillBait NewsEmerging Global Health Risks from Resilient Free-Living Amoebae
📰 Original title: Scientists sound alarm as dangerous amoebas spread globally
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KillBaitEmerging Global Health Risks from Resilient Free-Living Amoebae
📰 Original title: Scientists sound alarm as dangerous amoebas spread globally
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️
Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Shelled #amoeba crawls like an octopus, shifting tactics on the go https://phys.org/news/2026-01-shelled-amoeba-octopus-shifting-tactics.html https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/pjab/advpub/0/advpub_pjab.102.001/_html/-char/en
"Commonly found in #peatlands and freshwater environments, #Arcella belongs to a group called testate #amoebae, characterized by having its body enclosed, almost entirely, within a dome-shaped shell... Through an opening on its underside, Arcella can mold its cell body to create finger-like projections called #pseudopodia to capture prey and move around."
michael24-Sep-2025
Trojan Horse in #Water: #Amoebae as carriers for human #Norovirus and #Adenovirus
Trojan Horse in Water: Amoebae as carriers for human Norovirus and Adenovirus
In a new study titled “Enteric Viruses and Free-Living Amoebae: Protozoa as Potential Reservoirs and Transport Vessels for human Norovirus and Adenovirus,” published in Water & Ecology, an international team of researchers demonstrated that human norovirus (HNoV) and adenovirus (HAdV) can reside within environmental free-living amoebae (FLA) for up to 12 days. Viruses remained infectious within amoebae while encapsulated, protected from amoebal digestion and structural degradation. The detection of HAdV mRNA further suggests possible viral replication. These findings indicate that FLA may serve as environmental reservoirs and transmission vessels for enteric viruses—challenging the current water treatment efficacy and underscoring the need for updated public health guidance.
Draws_Shoots_And_Leaves#amoeba #amoebida #amoebae #amoebas any of the microscopic unicellular protozoans of the #rhizopodan order Amoeba. Each amoeba contains a small mass of jellylike #cytoplasm which is differentiated into a thin other plasma #membrane, a layer of stiff clear #ectoplasm just within the plasma membrane, and a central granular #endoplasm
#sketchbook #pixelfedart #mastoart
#sketchbook #pixelfedart #mastoart
Academic EuropeJob - Alert 📢
👉🏼 RESEARCH ASSISTANT / PHD STUDENT (ALL GENDERS) - CELL BIOLOGY OF THE VAMPIRE AMOEBAE
Deadline: 2025-06-15
Location: Germany, Darmstadt, Hessen
🔗 https://www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7426
#hiring #PhD #CellBiology #Protists #Amoebae #ElectronMicroscopy #LifeSciences #biology
Leibniz-HKI🦠#Microbes are in a constant battle for survival! Researchers from @LeibnizHKI @unijena @microverse_exc @unibayreuth discovered how the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae uses a chemical radar to detect and eliminate predatory #amoebae .The #bacteria produce harmless molecules that the amoebae modify, revealing their presence. P. syringae detects this and produces toxic substances to eliminate the predator. This mechanism could inspire new drugs and pest control strategies! 💊 @dfg_public #EFRE
This #amoeba eats prey like #owls do https://www.sciencenews.org/article/amoeba-eats-removes-shell
The vampyrellid amoeba #Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.70191
"The microscopic predator engulfs #algae, drains the cells and spits out the shell"
It's time to consider the Arcellinida shell as a weapon https://www.isep-protists.com/post/arcellinida-shell-weapon
"why is there such a large morphological diversity in shell-bearing #amoebae and what is the function of shells anyway? We knew for a long time that #Arcellinida are masters of the #cytoskeleton as they use it to build their elaborate shells. It was unknown that they use both, the cytoskeleton and shell, in combination to function as small apex #predators in their systems."
ISEPIt's time to consider the Arcellinida shell as a weapon https://www.isep-protists.com/post/arcellinida-shell-weapon #ISEPpapers by Kenneth Dumack et al.: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0932473924000014
"why there is such a large morphological diversity in shell-bearing #amoebae and what is the function of shells anyway? It was long assumed shells are for defense, well let me try to convince you that their purpose is attack"
#protists #microbes #biology #predators #fungi #algae #diatoms #microscopy
