A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...

A parasite that lives permanently in the brains of millions may not be as uniformly dormant as scientists once thought.

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

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But ...

The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...

Most mammals produce their own vitamin C using an enzyme called GULO. Around 60 million years ago, humans lost this ability, ...

A new study, conducted by researchers from the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, have revealed that Leishmania adaptation is a consequence of ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of years ago, humans lost the ability to produce vitamin C, a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, new ...

If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy – the disease long associated with ...

Such evidence suggests early heartworms evolved alongside canines millions of years ago. Mosquitoes existed long before ...

Schistosoma mansoni worms, the cause of schistosomiasis, a microscopic worm that plagues more than 200 million across the globe, are seen through a microscope at the lab of University of Georgia ...