Under the microscope, one water-filled petri dish was teeming with round, reddish, immobile blobs — what vampyrellids look like after feeding. But nearby algae lacked telltale feeding holes.

This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...

Are you experiencing an unsettling bump beneath your skin and suspect it might be a cyst? If so, you are in the right place.

Although a thorough history and radiographic findings often suggest a particular diagnosis, endoscopic ultrasound-guided (EUS) fine-needle aspiration (FNA) and analysis of cyst fluid or ERCP provide ...

With winter weather settling in, it's no surprise that people are already suffering from irritating colds and blocked noses. Struggling to breathe properly can really wipe you out, but people are ...

A case of a rare brain-eating amoeba has been confirmed in Florida, according to health officials in the US state. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) said one person in Hillsborough County had ...

NEW YORK -- Serena Williams said she had a benign branchial cyst "the size of a small grapefruit" removed from her neck and "all is OK." The retired tennis star, 43, posted Wednesday on social ...

An Indian teenager is now among a handful of people in the world to survive a rare brain-eating amoeba, partly due to his father coming across a public awareness campaign on social media.

This could potentially expose individuals to a "brain-eating amoeba". If you also shoot the water "straight up", it provides the parasite with a direct route to its target, which could ...

On my second night visiting Los Angeles, I couldn't resist the allure of Amoeba Records. While others pored over the aisles ...

Cystic acne is a severe form of acne that results in large, pus-filled cysts underneath the skin’s surface, which usually makes them more painful than normal bumps and, depending on the severity ...

All variants of Vortex Phantoms only drop one Vortex Shard. Vortex Cysts are dropped from Vortex Horrors, another new enemy type added in the Shattered Space DLC. These creatures will also spawn ...