Amoeba Antimicrobial Defense Likened To Human Innate Immunity

A study published in Nature Communications from researchers at the University of Geneva and Baylor College of Medicine show the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum uses antimicrobial defense systems akin to phagocytes of the human innate immune system, and it evolved these defenses much earlier than initially thought. D. discoideum is a soil living amoeba often referred to ["]