Nearly 850 species of parasites are known to infect people; some, like the potentially deadly plasmodium parasite that causes ...

Some people online believe many of us have dangerous parasites in our gut and need to flush them out with herbal supplements.

An international team of neurobiologists has developed a way to use a parasite to deliver protein therapies through the blood–brain barrier to treat nerve cell disorders. In their study published in ...

Social media can be a good thing when it comes to connecting with loved ones, learning new skills, or becoming engaged in social change. But misinformation commonly spreads across social media sites ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the Cryptosporidium parasite exports a protein into infected intestinal cells, altering the gut environment and enabling the parasite to ...

Microscope image of a live malaria parasite (guitar pick shape) inside a human red blood cell (large circle). The parasite that causes the deadly disease malaria is full of tiny crystals that ...