A team from the Wood Lab, a UW lab that researches aquatic parasite ecology, traveled to Albuquerque, New Mexico this summer ...

We’ve all seen the latest historical interpretations on television, the movies, or even the stage. And while talented costumers, set producers, and makeup artists can work wonders in re-creating the ...

It’s Halloween season, the liminal period when the general public seems to have a greater tolerance for stomach-churning content, so let’s talk about parasites, perhaps the most disgusting — and ...

Ines’ research takes a multidisciplinary approach to understand the spread, evolution, and molecular interaction of the ...

DNA has been known to jump from one species to another in a phenomenon called horizontal transfer. Sometimes, the DNA of parasites will jump into the genomes of their hosts, and evidence of this ...

Parasites that cause severe diarrhoea are likely to become more virulent because of the speed at which they are exchanging their DNA and evolving – according to new research from the University of ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...

Netflix’s upcoming horror series Parasyte: The Grey released a brand-new trailer, teasing the central storyline about parasites taking over humans. The series is a live-action adaptation of Hitoshi ...