A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...
A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...
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Scientists uncover previously unknown life forms hiding inside the human body
The human body has always been crowded with microscopic passengers, from bacteria to viruses and fungi. Over the past two ...
Scientists have uncovered a hidden battle between a widespread brain parasite and the immune cells tasked with destroying it. A parasite that can quietly persist in the human brain is capable of ...
Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But ...
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 ...
More than 90 percent of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contain a parasite that is capable of inducing strokes or heart attacks in the humans who eat them. Researchers said the ...
Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...
Such evidence suggests early heartworms evolved alongside canines millions of years ago. Mosquitoes existed long before ...
If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy – the disease long associated with ...
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