Tag: Parasitology

Comprehensive new studyCredit: BlueFish Project, Swansea University Shore crabs carry parasites that pose a major threat to shellfish stocks. In ...

Credit: FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute A team of scientists from Tyumen together with colleagues found and described previously ...

Credit: Ganpati B. Jagdale Native to the Southeastern United States, muscadine grapes are a superfruit. With high levels of resveratrol, ...

Credit: Photo: Tapani Hopkins Scientists at the Biodiversity Unit of the University of Turku in Finland have studied the diversity ...

Credit: G. Knott & M. Blokesch, EPFL In 2015, EPFL researchers led by Melanie Blokesch published a seminal paper in ...

Compound inhibits key enzymes, interrupting the parasite's lifecycle in human organisms and preventing transmission to vector insects. This discovery published ...

Phylogenomic analysis shows that pathogen isolated in Brazilian hospital does not belong to the genus Leishmania; researchers are investigating whether ...

Credit: Gary J. Weil (CC-BY 4.0) The Global Program to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis delivers mass drug administration to 500 million ...

Hamilton College researcher reveals body size shapes mammal immune defensesCredit: Cynthia J. Downs What species is better at fighting an ...

Credit: Martin Stoffel It is well established that weakened immune systems in old age affect people's health and fitness, but ...

Blood flukes and Helicobacter pylori: co-infection changes immune responseCredit: Clarissa Prazeres da Costa / TUM A team at the Technical ...

Credit: Bill Baker The frigid waters of the Antarctic may yield a treatment for a deadly disease that affects populations ...

Credit: Tyler M. Sharp (CC BY 4.0) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently developed an Autocidal ...

Boyce Thompson Institute researchers showed that ascaroside compounds from nematodes can protect rice, wheat, corn and soybeans from numerous pathogensCredit: ...