Abstract: It has been suggested that the harm parasites cause to their hosts is an unavoidable consequence of parasite reproduction with costs not only for the host but also for the parasite.

Researchers have tracked Cryptosporidium in real time, creating a new paradigm for how the widespread parasite reproduces in a host. "We have been interested in the romantic life of the parasite ...

Scientists from the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham have received nearly £600,000 to research how sexual development and gene shuffling within the malaria parasite could help to control ...

Parasites often cause changes in the growth and reproduction of their hosts. For example, during parasitic infections, tiny algae-eating crustaceans known as water fleas sometimes become sterile and ...

The mosquito-borne infectious disease malaria resulted in about 241 million clinical episodes and 627,000 deaths in 2020. In young children and pregnant women living in areas where the disease is ...

Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. German scientists may have found a genetic switch to stop the parasite at every stage of its development, offering new hope for treatment.

A resilient parasite carried by raccoons is spreading across Europe, posing a severe neurological threat to humans. Experts ...

From ‘Alien’ to ‘The Last of Us,’ parasites have a gruesome reputation. But parasitologists are finding ways to change the conversation. A nematomorpha parasite wriggling from a dead bush-cricket.

Since the mid-1990s, scientists have been trying to figure out what has been causing frogs around the United States and Canada to become deformed. Little progress has been made in sorting out which ...

“We have been interested in the romantic life of the parasite Cryptosporidium for some time,” says Boris Striepen, a scientist in Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine. Cryptosporodium is a leading ...