Strepsiptera are a small order of obligate endoparasitic insects, notable for extreme sexual dimorphism and a life cycle intimately tied to their hosts, predominantly Hymenoptera and Hemiptera.

Malaria infection begins when sporozoites, the motile form of the Plasmodium parasite, traverse the dermis and invade hepatocytes in the liver. Within these cells the parasite undergoes a silent yet ...

The parasite that causes Toxoplasmosis, Toxoplasma gondii, is common and may be found in undercooked or contaminated meat, and cat feces. So most people who have a littler box at home have been ...

Parasite-host modeling meets reality: adaptive peaks and their ecological attributes / A.M. Kuris, K.D. Lafferty -- Adaptive diversity, specialisation, habitat preference and parasites / T. de Meeus - ...

A parasite which has devastating impacts on agriculture and human health is the first pathogen to have its proteins located and mapped within its cells -- providing clues to their function and helping ...

The first cell atlas of an important life stage of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm that poses a risk to hundreds of millions of people each year, has been developed. The first cell atlas of an ...

The first cell atlas of an important life stage of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm that poses a risk to hundreds of millions of people each year, has been developed by researchers at the ...

For decades, parasite control in cattle has followed a familiar script: Treat the whole herd in the spring, treat again in ...

Organoids and engineered systems are transforming malaria research, improving drug discovery and understanding of Plasmodium biology in global health contexts.

To better understand the unique reproductive biology of tsetse flies, which are carriers of the parasites that cause a deadly infection known as African sleeping sickness, researchers explored the ...

To evade our body's defenses, the parasite responsible for sleeping sickness uses a particular method. It modifies its own genetic instructions at the very moment they are produced, as if deliberately ...

A Portland State University-led research team has developed a novel chemical compound that shows promise for the treatment and prevention of malaria, one of the world's deadliest diseases. Malaria, a ...