A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...

After decades of stalled progress, new vaccines, treatments and genetic tools are helping scientists protect children and ...

Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, ...

A new study, conducted by researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, have revealed that Leishmania adaptation is a consequence of ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

Schistosoma mansoni worms, the cause of schistosomiasis, a microscopic worm that plagues more than 200 million across the globe, are seen through a microscope at the lab of University of Georgia ...

A depiction of proteins Pfs230 and Pfs48/45 bound together. This binding process is crucial for the malaria parasite’s ability to fertilise and spread. Australian researchers have visualised a key ...

Such evidence suggests early heartworms evolved alongside canines millions of years ago. Mosquitoes existed long before ...

If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy – the disease long associated with ...