A parasitic infection transmitted to humans by cats affects billions of people and can alter their behavior. New research ...

Fat cells play a surprising role in combating parasites, according to a study published today (October 14) in Science Immunology, which finds that fatty tissue surrounding the intestinal tracts of ...

Most humans have long-lived infections in various tissues—including in the nervous system—that typically do not result in ...

Rodents—such as mice—are reservoirs for many of these tick-borne pathogens, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and the parasite that causes babesiosis, among others. There has ...

If you have a pet mouse of your own, you’ll know they make for lively, curious companions. However, because of their small ...

For these studies, they used the protozoan Plasmodium berghei, a close relative of Plasmodium falciparum that infects mice rather than humans. As hoped, they found a genetically modified parasite ...

From mice performing first aid to birds using antioxidants, animals display remarkable self-medication behaviors that could ...

Next, the researchers wanted to understand what effect the host’s low blood sugar had on the parasite. The researchers bred transgenic mice that don’t express the G6PC1 gene in the liver, meaning that ...

thereby injecting its saliva and the parasite-containing gel into the person's skin. Rogers and his colleagues determined that in the early course of infection in mice, the gel plug recruited ...

Newborn mice infected with Cryptosporidium had less parasites in the intestines when treated with the compound AN3661 (bottom). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Nov. 6 ...

Meagher, S. and W. K. Potts. 1997. A microsatellite-based MHC genotyping system for house mice Mus domesticus). Hereditas 127:75-82. Becky Eichenseer: Becky is studying parasite community ecology in ...