Experts believe these findings could soon shape the future of restoration efforts ...

Parasites have been attaching themselves to spiders for millennia. Given the large number of spiders and the wide variety of ...

Scientists found that live oysters can lower infection rates in juvenile blue crabs by removing parasites from the water.

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 ...

In 2007, molecular biologist Thierry Diagana, head of global health biomedical research at Novartis, and his colleagues were searching for fresh drugs against malaria, medicines that the parasites had ...

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 ...