How a new drug kills sleeping sickness parasites by damaging their DNA

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

A common parasite can decapitate human sperm − with implications for male fertility

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Bill Sullivan, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) Male fertility rates have been ...
NPR

What a fossil mystery tells us about parasites today

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 million years old. They share stories of the power of parasitism through the ...
The Daily of the University of Washington

UW researchers study the impact of urbanization in Albuquerque on parasites

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

Human case of screwworm found in US. Are the parasites in Ohio? Here's what to know

A human case of the flesh-eating New World Screwworm has been found in the United States in a person who traveled to El Salvador. The parasitic insect is actually a fly that looks similar to a ...
The New England Journal of Medicine

Safety and Efficacy of Immunization with a Late-Liver-Stage Attenuated Malaria Parasite

Currently licensed and approved malaria subunit vaccines provide modest, short-lived protection against malaria. Immunization with live-attenuated Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites is an ...