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 ...

Acanthamoeba keratitis is a rare but blinding parasitic eye disease. Experts share how to avoid it and treat it.

The Greenland shark is thought to live for about 400 years but somehow its eyes appear to barely deteriorate, according to a ...

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

Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology ...

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

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

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health research reveals how our bodies keep it under control.

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

In Franklin Mountains State Park, infected bugs emerged from their typical wild refuges: rocky crevices, dry arroyos, and ...

According to new research recently published in the journal Nature Communications, the Greenland shark retained its visual ...

Scientists identify a new marine fungus that attacks toxic algae, offering insight into natural controls on blooms that ...