A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...

“Our discovery reveals a parasite that is more sophisticated than we originally believed it to be.” Studying hundreds of infected ants in the Bidstrup Forests, in Denmark, scientists painstakingly ...

For the first time the developmental stages of the deadliest human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, have been mapped in high resolution, allowing scientists to better understand this ...

Using genome reconstruction, scientists unveiled a once 'invisible' fish parasite present in many marine fish world-wide that belongs to the apicomplexans, one of the most important groups of ...

Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying—completely unable to survive without a protein his lab ...

Parasite-host modeling meets reality: adaptive peaks and their ecological attributes / A.M. Kuris, K.D. Lafferty -- Adaptive diversity, specialisation, habitat preference and parasites / T. de Meeus - ...