It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the ...

Foreign aid isn’t fashionable, but Greenwood says it helped ... the first vaccine against any parasite in humans. Two years later, a similar vaccine developed at Oxford university was approved.

Ants are known to kill intruders when they are detected to protect the colony. To avoid attacks, ant crickets use various ...

The parasitic fungus sometimes called ‘Himalayan gold’ can provide a good living to villagers who collect it. But rugged ...

Scientists have predicted that the rate of foodborne trematode infections will remain stable up to 2030. Foodborne ...

Intracellular parasites and bacteria deploy an array of molecular tactics to invade host cells. Once inside, these pathogens subvert and co-opt host resources for survival and reproduction.

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 ...

A million years ago, a species known as Homo erectus most likely survived in an arid desert with no trees. By Carl Zimmer ...

Researchers identify a pathogenic subset of CD8+ memory T-cells that promote airway tissue inflammation and recurrent ...

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

The safety of dyes obtained from the bloodred webcap fungus can vary, according to a new doctoral dissertation exploring their toxicity. Completed at the University of Eastern Finland, the study found ...