Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...

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 ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have discovered that parasites hijack host-cell proteins to ensure their survival and proliferation, suggesting new ways to control ...

An apicomplexan parasite (green) without the CLAMP complex is unable to invade a host cell (gray). Credit: Wandy Beaty/ Washington University An apicomplexan parasite (green) without the CLAMP complex ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

WEHI researchers have discovered how dormant Toxoplasma parasites in the brain manipulate their host cells to ensure their own survival. WEHI researchers have discovered how dormant Toxoplasma ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

Drexel University scientists have discovered an unusual mechanism for how two new antimalarial drugs operate: They give the parasite’s skin a boost in cholesterol, making it unable to traverse the ...