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

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

“You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” Ralston said of her very first encounter with the parasite. In 2014, she published her initial findings in Nature on the process, known ...

Male fertility rates have been plummeting over the past half-century. An analysis from 1992 noted a steady decrease in sperm counts and quality since the 1940s.

FERTILITY rates appear to have been declining in both men and women globally – and a common parasite may be a potential cause ...

Better well done than wormy! A stomach-turning image of a parasite infection embedded in the muscle of a human body shows the dangers a person can face if they consume undercooked pork.

is a parasite that spends its entire life inside the human body. Volinsky and his colleagues say that there are five stages of the rope worm life cycle. They claim that there are various methods ...

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

It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms ... A parasite that eats its victims alive Once inside the body, Entamoeba histolytica heads straight ...

Entamoeba histolytica is a single-cell parasite that causes intestinal disease, but sometimes invades the body, attacking cells and creating ... and now proposes a strategy to learn how it attacks ...