Researchers at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have found an advantage to vitamin C deficiency: defense against a significant parasitic disease.

Liver fluke infections are expected to surge this winter, putting pressure on farmers to act quickly to protect herd and ...

Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a benefit of vitamin C ...

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

Taking iron from the larvae of a pathogenic parasite is shown to reduce their survival rate and could provide a new way to treat it Figure 1: A light micrograph of the larva of the parasitic flatworm ...

A light micrograph of the larva of the parasitic flatworm that causes the disease schistosomiasis in people. A RIKEN researcher has ...

BETHESDA, MD / ACCESS Newswire / October 31, 2025 / What if I told you zombies are real? And no, not the ones you see on movie screens. I'm talking about nature's zombies, real organisms hijacked and ...

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms and, in some cases, fatal infections in their hosts. “Overall, parasites ...

From a hummingbird in flight to up-close encounters with parasites and their hosts, these images will spark the curiosity within. Scientists at the Altshuler Lab at the University of British Columbia ...

Those prone to nightmares about snakes, worms and eels should be warned about the following content. There’s an invasive species now found in Washington state: the hammerhead flatworm. They are ...

Rhowan Ho is a first-year master's student in marine biology with a focus on parasitology and science communication at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. He grew up on Penang Island, ...