Parasites are well known for sucking energy from their hosts, but can they drain energy from hosts even before infection? A new study by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of ...

Deep in the freshwater systems of Hunan Province, China, a microscopic parasite has been quietly colonizing the intestinal ...

A new study has found that people with the sickle cell genetic variant are almost exclusively infected by a distinct variety ...

An ambitious global plan to save parasites seeks to correct the mistake of leaving them out of most conservation efforts. Parasites have a public relations problem. Unlike the many charismatic mammals ...

Whether it's finding a tick buried in your socks after a walk in the woods or yanking off a few leeches after a pond swim, parasites trigger revulsion in most of us. And forget about those worms in ...

It’s Halloween season, the liminal period when the general public seems to have a greater tolerance for stomach-churning content, so let’s talk about parasites, perhaps the most disgusting — and ...

Malaria is one of the deadliest infectious diseases on the planet, afflicting people throughout recorded history. In places ...

For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the equator and lower toward the poles. Known as the latitudinal diversity gradient ...

Kevin Lafferty emerges from the waters off Anacapa Island near Ventura, California, after spearing fish in March 2018. He’s advising a UCSB PhD student on research to determine if reef fish inside ...

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