Lowri's headaches, seizures and psychosis were due to an infection caused by pork tapeworm larvae.

Scientists from the Universiti Malaysia Sabah have discovered a newly identified “parasite of parasites ” in the tropical ...

US researchers have genetically modified hookworms to produce and secrete specific antibodies. This is a “first step” towards ...

For nearly half a century, scientists have known that malaria parasites force their way into human red blood cells through a ...

A parasitic worm might be the impetus behind a new generation of medicine. In a recent review in published in Clinical & ...

Lowri Denman battled a decade of seizures, psychosis and uncertainty about her future after suffering repeated flare-ups of ...

Whether it's finding a tick buried in your socks after a walk in the woods or yanking off a few leeches after a pond swim, parasites trigger revulsion in most of us. And forget about those worms in ...

For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the equator and lower toward the poles. Known as the latitudinal diversity gradient ...

A deadly flesh-eating parasite that creates festering sores by gruesomely burrowing into its prey’s skin has been detected in ...

Scientists at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (BRIC-RGCB) here have identified a new mechanism that allows malaria ...