“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite.

Dozens of firetrucks are driving to Melbourne's CBD to protest the new emergency services levy proposed in the state budget.

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

Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes it triggers severe, even fatal disease by chewing ulcers in the colon, liquefying parts of the liver and ...

Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes it triggers severe, even fatal disease by chewing ulcers in the colon, liquefying parts of the liver and ...

Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes it triggers severe, even fatal disease by chewing ulcers in the colon, liquefying parts of the liver and ...

Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes it triggers severe, even fatal disease by chewing ulcers in the colon, liquefying parts of the liver and ...

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

Rajendra Gumaste tended to the acres of greenery in a pocket at the southern tip of Mumbai set up by scientist extraordinaire ...