Revealing a sensitive germination receptor in parasitic plants brings researchers closer to eradicating a major source of African crop damage and food insecurity. From summer to autumn in sub ...

Parasites are organisms that survive by living on or inside a host body and feeding off its nutrients. They have the ability to inflict various health issues like digestive problems, fatigue, and ...

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

Korean pride in this cinematic masterpiece swept through my Twitter timeline. And by the time Parasite was named best picture - winning its fourth Oscar - the voices across the country had reached ...

In parasitism, an individual organism, the parasite, consumes nutrients from another organism, its host, resulting in a decrease in fitness to the host. In extreme cases, parasites can cause ...

Hijacking the Command Center of the Cell: Nuclear Parasites in Deep-Sea Mussels Sep. 6, 2024 — Researchers now reveal how a bacterial parasite infects and reproduces in the nuclei of deep-sea ...

Enter the Euglena. An Osaka Metropolitan University team has found a way to have one species of this microalgae produce wax esters with shorter carbon chains than usual. The findings were ...

When they aren't using your intestines as a holiday home or eating some unsuspecting creature from the inside out, parasites can have some surprising benefits. Seriously. Meet some of nature's unsung ...

Two people in Los Angeles County are sick with a rare parasitic infection known as “raccoon roundworm,” according to officials. The parasite, called Baylisascaris procyonis, was found in the ...

It's not science fiction. It might sound like something out of a horror movie plot (because it sort of is), but the tongue-replacing parasite is very real. The movie imagines mutated parasites ...

Since some brood parasites rely on several different bird species as foster parents, more than a sixth of all species in the avian world care for chicks that aren’t their own at some point.

South Korean film Parasite has been named best picture at this year's Oscars, becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize. Renee Zellweger won best actress for playing Judy ...