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 ...

Host manipulation by parasites encompasses a range of strategies whereby parasitic organisms induce alterations in the physiology, behaviour, or morphology of their hosts to enhance their own ...

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Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal species, offering new insights into how parasitic infections emerge and ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Parasites make up nearly half the diversity on the planet! Smithsonian parasite biologist Katrina Lohan talks to Nature Brain, the videos that ...

For scientists, dissections don't end in high school! In this episode of Nature Brain, Kristina Borst describes the messy process scientists use to find parasites in fish. Nature Brain delivers weird ...