(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) More than 1,200 Bridgeport high school seniors celebrated graduation Friday during a ...

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

More than 90 percent of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain a parasite that is capable of inducing strokes or heart attacks in the humans who eat them. Researchers said the ...

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

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. has confirmed the first case of a flesh-eating parasite in a human, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said on Monday. New World screwworm (NWS) is a species of parasitic flies ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) I am a microbiologist, and my lab studies Toxoplasma. This new study bolsters emerging ...