How Does A Brain-eating Amoeba Eat brains?

Maggie Koerth-Baker, Boing Boing
Tue, 07/22/2014 - 8:53pm

Is "brain eating" a metaphor or exaggeration of how the amoeba works? No, actually. It really does literally eat brains. Here's how.

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