{
  "id": 9176639,
  "title": "Naegleria amoebae seek confinement and crawl persistently through narrow spaces",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/naegleria-amoebae-seek-confinement-and-crawl-persistently-through",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-10T07:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "PNAS",
    "slug": "pnas",
    "url": "https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2534165123?af=R"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 123, Issue 38, September 2026. SignificanceThe “brain-eating amoeba”Naegleria fowlericauses a devastating brain infection with a ~95% fatality rate, yet how these normally harmless pond-dwellers invade the human brain remains mysterious. Using the model speciesN. gruberi, we show ...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}