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

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

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The parasite that causes malaria requires precise control of gene expression to progress through the various stages of its complex life cycle. A new study, by a multinational team of researchers, ...

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 ...

A tongue-eating parasite may be one of the most disturbing survival strategies in the ocean. After entering a fish’s mouth, ...

A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii , a common parasite affecting up to one-third of the global population, is far more complex than previously ...

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 - ...