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Eye-eating amoeba resists treatment—understanding its biochemistry could help
Source: Phys.org · Published

In water, soil and air all around us lives a free-living, single-celled organism called Acanthamoeba. Most of the time, Acanthamoeba keeps to itself. On rare occasions, though, the amoeba infects…
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