Scientists have revealed how a parasite that affects millions of people every year evades our immune defenses.

More than 90% of popular freshwater game fish in Southern California contained an introduced parasite capable of infecting ...

Amoebas don’t usually make headlines. But Entamoeba histolytica, a single-celled killer with a taste for human cells, may ...

In exchange for these mites emptying out gunk, the human body offers our melatonin, a hormone produced in the skin that helps ...

There are two types of human intestinal parasites, protozoa – single-celled organisms that can multiply inside the human body – and helminths, organisms such as tapeworms, roundworms and ...

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.

Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito ...

Infectious diseases such as gonorrhea or chlamydia are often overlooked factors that affect fertility in men. Accumulating evidence suggests that a common single-celled parasite called Toxoplasma ...