More than two billion people around the world are infected with a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A study sheds new light on how Toxoplasma gondii parasites make the proteins they need to enter a dormant stage that allows them to escape drug treatment.

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 ...

That human is Jeong Su-in, a store cashier, who begins to wonder if she’s the only being inside her body. Once they infect humans these parasites control the human’s brain but that’s not ...