A tick protein that inhibits multiple immune signals could lead to better treatments for autoimmune diseases and inflammation ...

These parasites are more common than many owners realize, but luckily, nearly all are preventable.

For decades, scientists have observed a clear pattern across the natural world: biodiversity tends to be higher near the ...

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 ...

Researchers found that intestinal tuft cells signal to crypt enterochromaffin cells by releasing acetylcholine, triggering serotonin release and activating a gut-to-brain vagal pathway during type 2 ...

When we think parasites, we often think of illness, disease, and discomfort. But did you know some of them can actually be ...

Paving way for new therapies, researchers decode how parasites that spread one of the world's deadliest diseases use trickery ...

Parasite extinction will have lasting and far-reaching consequences for biodiversity, and subsequently for humans. Kelly Speer Bat ticks (Ornithodoros) under a microscope. These parasites primarily ...

A team of ecologists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has made a breakthrough that has implications for multiple fields within biology as well as epidemiology. Ecologist Ryan ...

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 ...