T he United States has, for 70 years, been fighting a continuous aerial war against the New World screwworm, a parasite that ...

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

Human parasites recovered include cestodes, trematodes, and nematodes. The well preserved conditions of helminth eggs allowed paleoepidemiological approaches taking into account the number of eggs ...

The mere presence of a dead counterpart elicits strong responses across species. For example, many insects such as bees and ...

A Heriot-Watt scientist has worked with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute to develop a method to ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

Kevin Liévano-Romero abandoned a veterinary career in Colombia to move to the United States, where he studies feared but ...