In biology classes from high school through university, I learned that mitochondria are little objects that reside within ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this ...

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

Researchers developed a new machine learning method that, given a relevant amino acid sequence, can automatically predict the location of a protein in any human cell line down to the single-cell level ...

A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, and ...

With its fascinating ability to regrow entire limbs and internal organs, the Mexican axolotl is the ideal model for studying regeneration. Scientists have now found a factor that tells cells which ...

A protein located in the wrong part of a cell can contribute to several diseases, such as Alzheimer's, cystic fibrosis, and cancer ...

Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

E. histolytica was actually taking bites out of human cells. Peering through the microscope, "You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off," she said. Those ingested cell ...