Like ticks, mosquitoes feed on the blood of humans and animals, making them parasites. Mosquitoes are carriers of a variety of different diseases, including but not limited to malaria, yellow ...

Nutrition and lifestyle consultant Madeleine Helm hosts Zoom sessions on health and recently discussed parasite types, their health effects and ways to reduce infection risks.

Scientists have discovered a new species of human parasite that appears ... to treat many different intestinal parasites. "There was a suspicion of something odd, because the drug combination ...

The movie imagines mutated parasites taking over the bodies of humans to wreak havoc on an ... parasitism and the delicate interplay between different species. How does the part about our ...

Cancer grows from mutations in a person’s cells. Parasites are separate organisms that live on or in another host organism.

The Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble discovered notable differences between the nuclear cap-binding complex in trypanosomes and humans, a critical component in cellular RNA metabolism. Trypanosomes ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...

incognita and the human Trichuris species T ... a major neglected tropical disease by WHO, it may be that different species of the parasite have been overlooked, Gilleard said.