Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been developed. A better ...

which are symptoms of brain parasites due to toxoplasmosis, neurocysticercosis, cerebral malaria, echinococcus, and other infections. Ingesting the eggs leads to tapeworm larvae growing in many ...

Director Bong Joon-ho, known for his Oscar-winning film "Parasite," described his Hollywood debut, "Mickey 17," as a new type ...

Globally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions with poor sanitation infrastructure.

People are to be sent from Oxford to the Netherlands to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...

Parasite biology is the study of all biological ... of animal-adapted Cryptosporidium hominis subtypes differ from common human subtypes in the copy number of subtelomeric MEDLE genes ...

Key takeawaysGlobally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, ...

Parasite genomics is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the genetic material (genome) of parasites, primarily using sequencing, bioinformatics and computational tools. The ...

The antiparasitic drugs ivermectin and fenbendazole are not currently recommended for cancer, but posts spread across social ...

Dec. 12, 2024 — Few genomes have been sequenced from early modern humans, who first arrived in Europe when the region was already inhabited by Neanderthals. An international team has now ...

Scientists are developing the first-ever pill to prevent Lyme disease, potentially protecting millions from tick-borne ...