A Heriot-Watt scientist has worked with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh's Roslin Institute to develop a method to ...

Hundreds of parasites have the ability to infect humans, including lice, mites and ticks. However, parasite cleanses ...

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

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

Researchers have discovered how a parasite that causes malaria when transmitted through a mosquito bite can hide from the ...

Ten thousand New Zealanders may have lost vision – sometimes permanently – because of toxoplasmosis, an infection triggered ...

The blacklegged tick is perhaps the biggest threat because it’s the only tick species that can transmit Lyme disease, a ...

More than 70 people have been infected with a parasite after visiting an animal farm in Wales. Sixteen people have been ...

The parasite has been moving progressively northward through Central America over the past two years, spreading through ...

A microscopic parasite, cryptosporidium can be hard to avoid. Being infected by the bug leads to an illness called ...