Doctors warn that the parasite cleanse trend misleads patients, causing health risks and delaying proper diagnosis of ...

A medical student hopes her award-winning invention for detecting a deadly water parasite could save thousands of people from the risk of infection.

Genes of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) encode proteins that recognize foreign antigens and are thus crucial for immune response. In a population of a single host species, ...

Forever ago, I ranked the best movies of the 2010s, and I put Parasite, which is now widely considered one of the greatest ...

1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States 2 Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, United Kingdom The vertebrate gut teems with a large, diverse ...

One of the most well-known Christmas plants is actually a parasite that feeds on trees and could make people and pets sick.

GENERAL SANTOS CITY (MindaNews / 20 December) — Freshwater crabs in Mindanao have been found to carry DNA of the lung-fluke parasite Paragonimus westermani, which can cause illness if crabs are eaten ...

Toxoplasma gondii infects up to a third of the world’s human population at any given time. It likely has a much wider impact on animal behavior than anyone thought. The new study is the first to show ...

A resilient raccoon-carried parasite is rapidly spreading across Europe, posing a significant neurological risk to humans, ...

A scene in last year’s Academy Award-winning film Parasite, in which the housekeeper whips up instant noodles with finely marbled Korean Hanwoo beef, had viewers around the world drooling. The dark ...

This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...