There are parasites all over the world that can infect humans. Some of them are easy to avoid, but others are more common ...

From microscopic mites dwelling in our hair follicles to sizable tapeworms inhabiting our intestines, the human body plays ...

A study by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers sheds new light on how Toxoplasma gondii parasites make the ...

Screwworm flies prefer to nest on the periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as humans — depositing ...

Diabetes occurs when the body cannot produce enough insulin to manage a person's blood sugar levels, and doctors treat it ...

Adult tapeworms survive by attaching themselves to their host’s gut and siphoning off nutrients from our body. Many ... demonstrate the efficacy of parasite-inspired deployable designs as ...

However, very limited research supports these claims. Parasites are organisms that transmit an infection to the body of another living being and live off the host to survive. While some parasites ...

So far, no preventative vaccination against malaria exists, and its control depends heavily upon antimalarial drugs that kill parasites inside the human body. Malaria has been noted for more than ...

This summer on his final tour, and for the last 48 years, Richard Dawkins has argued that living things are the sum of their ...

To evade human defence responses, parasites switch between using PfEMP1s that contain different variable regions (variant adhesion domains). These domains show striking sequence diversity but are ...

OSAKA--The parasite responsible for malaria generates a look-alike of a human protein to suppress the ... As plasmodium is resistant to the immune system, the body's self-defense system, humans ...