Discovery adds new species to Rice lab’s ghoulish insect menagerie
Rice, UNAM team's four new wasp species are the 'tip of the iceberg'Credit: Photo by Scott Egan/Rice University HOUSTON - ...
Tag: Parasitology
New evidence to guide the practice of blood transfusions in children with severe malari
A new study shows that transfusions could help increase survival, even at higher haemoglobin levels than those currently recommendedCredit: ISGlobal ...
Climate projection research may help to battle ‘snail fever’ worldwide
Credit: Stony Brook University STONY BROOK, NY, October 8, 2020 - Projections of temperatures and precipitation amounts in climate change ...
Repurposed anti-malarial compounds kill diarrheal parasite, study finds
Credit: Image courtesy of Sumiti Vinayak CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A class of compounds used for malaria treatment also kill the ...
Salute the venerable ensign wasp, killing cockroaches for 25 million years
Credit: George Poinar Jr., Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. - An Oregon State University study has identified four new species ...
Copycat plant booster improves on nature
Credit: © 2020 KAUST; Boubacar A. Kountche and Jian You Wang A molecule that can mimic the function of zaxinone, ...
Secondary variant of Photorhabdus luminescens interacts with plant roots
New form of insect-pathogenic bacterium extends the options for sustainable crop protection and biological pest control in agricultureCredit: ill./©: Nazzareno ...
CRISPR-based malaria testing on-the-fly
A Plasmodium species-specific, ultrasensitive, nucleic acid detection assay to enable fast and inexpensive testing of symptomatic and asymptomatic carriers in ...
Genetic adaptation to climate change is swift in crop pests
Credit: N/A Fruit flies have the uncanny ability to wake up from a months-long hibernation right when their food of ...
Princeton researchers discover how worms pass down knowledge through the generations
Coleen Murphy found the key to multi-generational pathogen avoidance: a small RNA called P11Credit: Illustration by Rachel Kaletsky, Rebecca Moore ...
Coconut rhinoceros beetle makes unexpected ‘host shift’ to Guam’s cycad trees
Invasive beetle could lead to local extinction of the region's only native gymnospermCredit: University of Guam Western Pacific Tropical Research ...
Bat tick found for the first time in New Jersey
"Soft" tick species can pose a risk to public healthCredit: J. Occi/Rutgers Center for Vector Biology A tick species associated ...
In a mite-y bit of trouble
Credit: Fred and Jean Hort Mite extinctions are occurring at least 1,000 times the 'natural' rate - a finding a ...
Dodder uses the flowering signal of its host plant to flower
The plant parasite eavesdrops on its host and uses the host's mobile floral stimulus for timing its own floweringCredit: Jingxiong ...
Helminth infections common in Medieval Europe, grave study finds
Credit: Adrian Smith and Patrik Flammer, University of Oxford, UK Although helminth infections--including tapeworms and roundworms--are among the world's top ...
In times of ecological uncertainty, brood parasites hedge their bets
Credit: Photo by Michael Jeffords and Sue Post CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Some birds lay their eggs in the nests of ...
Biomedical scientists piece together how medication paralyzes parasitic worms
Credit: Richard Martin AMES, Iowa - For years, many scientists and medical professionals likely misunderstood how a commonly prescribed medication ...
Why aren’t sea trout thriving anymore?
Populations of this once-common fish species are in decline. Pathogens may be part of the reason.Credit: Sindre Håvardstein Eldøy / ...
Emerging infectious disease and challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals
A review ranging from frogs and wolves to lobsters, bats, and humansCredit: Kaeli Swift Humans are not the only social ...
Previously undescribed lineage of Archaea illuminates microbial evolution
New group with possible symbiotic life strategyCredit: Anja Spang In a publication in Nature Communications last Friday, NIOZ scientists Nina ...
