Parasites are organisms that live “on or within the blood, tissues or intestines of a host” and can be either external, think ticks, lice or mites, or human intestinal, according to UCLA Health.

The movie imagines mutated parasites taking over the bodies of humans to wreak havoc on an idyllic town. Breathe easy, though—in reality, Cymothoa exigua, the parasitic isopod in question ...

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Next-generation metagenomic sequencing test developed at UCSF proves its effectiveness in quickly diagnosing almost any kind ...

Researchers found that Toxoplasma gondii increased the host cell’s metabolic activity, offering insights into potential ...

Researchers noticed that the final act of grooming in our hairy ape ancestors involves protruding lips and slight suction to remove debris or parasites. While humans evolved to have less body hair, ...

These blood flukes, which are among the most prevalent parasites in humans, infecting nearly 250 million people, have ...

A new study sheds light on how the blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term infections in hosts.

Ivermectin is an antiparasitic agent, and its potential as an anticancer agent has recently attracted increasing attention.

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The emergence of drug-resistant parasites thwarts efforts to control human malaria. How can we understand the mechanism of drug-resistance evolution and build a strategy to delay it? So far ...

Most available research has examined whether papaya seeds get rid of intestinal parasites in animals rather than humans. One study published in 2018 examined the effects of corn flour fortified ...