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The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. ... Those ingested cell fragments, shining fluorescent green under her microscope, ...

But under the microscope, she observed something entirely different. E. histolytica was taking bites out of human cells. Looking through the microscope, “ You could see little parts of the human ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea.