Emerging research revealed how inhaled microplastics may harm respiratory health, with evidence of inflammation, lung lesions ...

A breakthrough in understanding how a single-cell parasite makes ergosterol (its version of cholesterol) could lead to more effective drugs for human leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that afflicts ...

Parasitic infection describes the infection of a host with a particular parasite. Parasites are microorganisms that rely on other host organisms for their own survival. Many parasites do not cause ...

New World screwworm was largely eradicated from the U.S. and Central America in the 1960s and 1980s, respectively. But the ...

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

Patients living with emphysema experience shortness of breath because areas within the lungs are diseased and are holding trapped air (hyperinflation of the lung). This makes it difficult to inhale ...

Lungworm is a generic term for a parasite that infects the lungs. I’ve thankfully never diagnosed a case of cat lungworms ...

A terrifying parasite that hasn’t beached North America ... periphery of fresh wounds in warm-blooded animals — as well as humans — depositing hundreds of eggs that hatch into flesh-eating ...

Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, USA Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, USA ...

Stanford Medicine/Youtube Stanford University School of Medicine clinical professor and researcher Dr. Bryant Lin has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer despite never smoking in his life.

A new study published by researchers at London's Natural History Museum and Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven has reinforced the claim that Neanderthals and modern-day humans (Homo sapiens ...

So, in the long history of everything, why hasn't any of this life made it far enough into space to shake hands (or claws … or tentacles) with humans? It could be that the universe is just too ...