Millions of years ago, our ancestors lost the ability to make vitamin C. It’s long been unclear why. But Dallas researchers may have uncovered an explanation — and it involves parasitic infections.At ...

New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause ...

We wrote about them last year: Asian Jumping worms. I'll refresh your memory, they are a creepy-crawly invasive species that is moving — jumping? — across the Midwest. The worm may be famous for the ...

DNA has been known to jump from one species to another in a phenomenon called horizontal transfer. Sometimes, the DNA of parasites will jump into the genomes of their hosts, and evidence of this ...

“Our clinical and epidemiologic findings show that the zoonotic eye fluke P. lacrymosus can infect humans in South America.

Scientists have found over a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face an emerging danger from the tiny worms that can cause blindness. The black bear ...

Researchers found that roundworms gobble down high-calorie foods when exposed to a compound that acts on the same brain receptor as THC. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...