Host manipulation by parasites encompasses a range of strategies whereby parasitic organisms induce alterations in the physiology, behaviour, or morphology of their hosts to enhance their own ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy — the disease long associated with ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

Balanophora shed one third of its genes as it evolved into a streamlined parasitic plant -- an extreme degree of genome shrinkage even among parasites. Along the way this subtropical plant developed ...