parasite

One in three people carry this brain parasite but the body has a kill switch

A parasite that may already be living in your brain has the ability to infect the very immune cells designed…

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The parasite that turns off your body’s pain alarm and sneaks in

New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, discovered that a parasitic worm suppresses neurons in the skin to evade…

6 months ago

Researchers discover ‘trojan horse’ virus hiding in human parasite

An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto has found a new RNA virus that they believe…

2 years ago

Giant viruses infect deadly parasite

The single-celled organism Naegleria fowleri ranks among the deadliest human parasites. Researchers around Matthias Horn and Patrick Arthofer from the…

2 years ago