Learn how infected immune cells shut themselves down to stop a parasite from spreading.

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

New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause ...

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 ...

A parasite that can kill dogs has been discovered in California’s Colorado River for the first time, marking a concerning ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

In Franklin Mountains State Park, infected bugs emerged from their typical wild refuges: rocky crevices, dry arroyos, and ...

A new analysis of the eyes of some of the longest-lived animals on Earth could provide molecular clues about long-lasting ...

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite, the first international film to win Best Picture at the Oscars, is leaving Netflix in just a few ...

“You see it move its eye,” says Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, an associate professor at UC Irvine. “The shark is tracking the ...