What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a ...

A parasite carried by billions of people worldwide often causes harmful infections during pregnancy and in immunocompromised ...

Interactions between hosts and their parasitic associates are fundamental to the structure and functioning of ecological communities. Parasites can regulate host population density, alter community ...

Researchers at LMU in collaboration with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg have discovered how the parasite Toxoplasma gondii builds a specialized structure that allows it ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the Cryptosporidium parasite exports a protein into infected intestinal cells, altering the gut environment and enabling the parasite to ...

Plasmodium parasites responsible for deadly outbreaks of malaria synchronize their emergence and development with the circadian rhythms of their hosts to maximize their survival and spread.

Lurking in the shadows of many ecosystems are animals whose main motivations are, quite literally, to hijack the bodies of ...