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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the fluke exerts a strong influence over the ant’s actions, it doesn’t replace any part of the ant’s body ... human activities often result in far more devastating consequences ...