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Wits scientists have identified a "microbial watchlist" of bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that could cause cancer.

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In a new study, University of Georgia scientists found hotter temperatures make monarch butterflies more vulnerable to ...

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A dog in the San Fernando Valley was found to have Baylisascaris, or raccoon roundworm, eggs in its system during a routine ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

New research led by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM) warns that hybrid forms of the parasites that cause ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.