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.

Cysts can survive days to weeks in the external environment ... from human cells before exposing the 'disguised' parasites to mouse blood serum. Entamoeba histolytica (blue) ingesting fragments of ...

In a 2014 Nature paper, Ralston described this awkward process — trogocytosis, or “cell nibbling.” It was a revelation at the ...

ALA = Amoebic liver abscess; Eh = Entamoeba histolytica; EhCP = E. histolytica cysteine proteinase; Ehserp = E. histolytica serine proteinase; EhSTIRP = Serine threonine isoleucine-rich protein ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...

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

Amoebiasis caused by Entamoeba histolytica is the second leading parasitic cause of human mortality, mainly affecting children of the developing world. Recent sequencing of the genome of E.

But during her New Year’s Eve Party special in 2023, she was facing something much more serious behind the scenes: a ruptured ovarian cyst. Her story shines a light on ovarian cysts, which are ...