The water-borne parasitic worm (or helminth) Schistosoma mansoni has a particularly insidious lifestyle. Its larvae penetrate ...

Rollins opened an $8.5 million facility in South Texas for releasing sterile New World screwworm flies and introduced a ...

Stem cell heterogeneity drives the parasitic life cycle of Schistosoma mansoni. eLife, 2018; 7 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.35449 ...

Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding ...

The US has confirmed its first human case of New World screwworm infection in decades. Experts explain what the flesh-eating ...

Researchers use genetic manipulation to obtain new mechanistic insights into the epibiotic life cycle. Microbial dark matter is the genetic material identified in large-scale metagenomics studies that ...

Zeeshan, M., et al. (2022) Genome-wide functional analysis reveals key roles for kinesins in the mammalian and mosquito stages of the malaria parasite life cycle.

The doctors removed the worm via a pars plana vitrectomy, a procedure in which the eye’s internal jelly-like vitreous humor ...

The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020.

A Parasitic Arsenic Cycle That Shuttles Energy from Phytoplankton to Heterotrophic Bacterioplankton. mBio, 2019; 10 (2) DOI: 10.1128/mBio.00246-19 ...