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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have shown how genetic defects in Toxoplasma gondii are rescued if co-infected with normal parasites, thanks to supportive secreted proteins. The study is published in eLife, and ...