N. gruberi is harmless to humans, but it does have a relative called Naegleria fowlerii that lives in murky water and can — rarely — swim up your nose and eat your brain.Sequencing was carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek. The joint first authors on the paper published in Cell were Lillian Fritz-Laylin, UC Berkeley and Simon Prochnik, Joint Genome Institute.
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