Tag: Parasitology

Credit: Photo credit: Gan Cheong Weei. Many animal and insect species use Batesian mimicry - mimicking a poisonous species - ...

Wits University scientists, with local and global partners have artificially infected mosquitoes with human malaria and identified a new chemical ...

Credit: Tuomas Kankaanpaa Climate and changes in it have direct impacts on species of plant and animals - but climate ...

Credit: Adapted from ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00685 Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), a deadly disease caused by the "brain-eating ...

Common bacteria naturally transmitted between insects found to make them less susceptible to insecticides used to control their numbersCredit: University ...

Credit: Joseph Hoyt of Virginia Tech Since 2006, a fungal disease called white-nose syndrome has caused sharp declines in bat ...

Discovery by Brazilian scientists paves the way for the study of more potent molecules capable of directly destroying parasites underlying ...

Gates Foundation grant targets global elimination of onchocerciasis, lymphatic filariasisCredit: Peter Fischer Global campaigns to eliminate two tropical parasitic worm ...

Credit: Albin Fontaine and Céline Jourdan, 2020 (CCBY 2.0) The Asian tiger mosquito does not pose a major risk for ...

Credit: Image credit: Francis J. Santoriello Researchers at The City College of New York have uncovered a novel way in ...

Credit: Couret, J. et al. 2020 (CC-BY 2.0) Rapid and accurate identification of mosquitoes that transmit human pathogens such as ...

Science to protect an emblematic species in the MediterraneanCredit: Diego Kersting (UB-IRBio) Fan mussel populations -the biggest bivalve mussel in ...

Credit: plos.org New research into how a common parasite infection alters human behaviour could help development of treatments for schizophrenia ...

Credit: Morgan Pratchett. A world-first study on the Great Barrier Reef shows crown-of-thorns starfish have the ability to find their ...

Credit: Bill Cole TORONTO, ON - The era of COVID-19 and the need to constantly wash one's hands and sanitize ...

A new study shows that, depending on the parasite stage, suboptimal doses of artemisinin could increase its conversion to the ...

Credit: (OSU College of Science) CORVALLIS, Ore. - Corals that appear healthy are more prone to getting sick when they're ...

Integration of contributors promotes the quantity and quality of dataCredit: André Künzelmann/UFZ Ecological monitoring is the recording of biological diversity ...

Credit: University of Guam Research at the University of Guam has shown that the decomposition of leaf litter from three ...

Credit: M. L. Pawlowski and G. L. Hartman Introduced to the United States over 60 years ago, soybean cyst nematode ...