Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections ...

In a new study, researchers discovered a key process where malarial parasites take up a human blood cell ... Discovery of a Common 'Weapon' Used by Disease-Causing Fungi Could Help Engineer More ...

A parasite (Pleistophora mulleri) roughly the size of a human blood cell can alter the behavior of freshwater shrimp (Gammarus duebeni celticus), making adults twice as likely to consume young members ...

The resulting coevolutionary arms race includes sophisticated defenses by hosts and escalating tools of exploitation by parasites. For the parasite, benefits include increased fecundity due to ...

A protein found in the saliva of Anopheles gambiae stopped blood from clotting in the insects’ stomachs and aided parasite transmission. Shelby is an assistant editor for The Scientist. She earned her ...