Almost everyone knows that mould on the surface of food immediately disqualifies products. However, the topic of parasites ...

Almost everyone knows that mold on the surface of food immediately disqualifies products. However, the topic of parasites ...

Melting Arctic ice increases human and animal interactions, raising the risk of infectious disease spread. Researchers urge ...

Researchers have reported the food attributable portions of disease for four important pathogens in the United Kingdom. Findings will be used to ...

Climate change is creating new pathways for the spread of infectious diseases like brucellosis, tularemia, or E. coli in the Arctic, according to a broad international consortium of scientists with a ...

Parasite genomics is the scientific discipline concerned with the study of the genetic material (genome) of parasites, primarily using sequencing, bioinformatics and computational tools. The ...

A study by Indiana University School of Medicine researchers sheds new light on how Toxoplasma gondii parasites make the proteins they need to enter a dormant stage that allows them to escape drug ...

Seroprevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii in people across Inuit Nunangat and foxes as sentinels of environmental transmission in northern Canada (Bouchard et al., 2022).

Gene silencing describes the epigenetic regulation of a gene, at the level of transcription or translation, to prevent gene expression. Mechanisms include DNA methylation, histone modification and ...

Reference: Eberhard JN, Shallberg LA, Winn A, et al. Immune targeting and host-protective effects of the latent stage of Toxoplasma gondii. Nat Microbiol. 2025:1-14. doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-01967-z ...

Pregnant women and immunocompromised individuals face the highest risk from Toxoplasma gondii, yet mild or asymptomatic infections in healthy adults were excluded from illness estimates to avoid ...

Examples of parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts are not hard to come by, but scientists have only recently begun to understand how they induce such dramatic changes. Jef Akst was ...