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

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

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 ...

They pose significant health and safety risks. California researchers warn residents about return of parasitic species: 'We ...

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 ...

Researchers from Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme show schistosome parasites are ...

That is because, believe it or not, almost half of animal life on Earth is some type of parasitic organism. The word tends to invoke images of grotesque creatures that squat inside people’s or their ...

It’s Halloween season, the liminal period when the general public seems to have a greater tolerance for stomach-churning content, so let’s talk about parasites, perhaps the most disgusting — and ...

A team of ecologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has made a breakthrough that has implications for multiple fields within biology as well as epidemiology. Ecologist Ryan ...

A vacation in the Catskills, one of those beautiful summer days which seem to go on forever, with family friends down at a local pond. I must have been six. I waded around happily, in and out of the ...

Biologists and ecologists have long wished to gather high-quality data on exactly what the animals they study are eating, but how can such observations be made without disturbing the natural patterns ...