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…

5 months ago

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…

11 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