I entered a world infected by parasites, but I didn’t expect to end up inside one. Everything around me was alive, hostile, and constantly evolving. The deeper I went, the harder it became to escape.

What do you get when you take an alien parasite and smush it together with a human being? Would you get to become a supercharged, head-eating anti hero like Venom? Or would you die a slow and painful ...

Ribosomes are the components of cells that read RNA and build proteins. Without the ribosome, the chemistry of life would ...

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent ...

An international research team headed by scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Center for Structural Systems Biology and Bernhard-Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine in ...

Mouse red blood cells infected with the parasite Babesia microti acquired the ability to move, offering new insight into host-pathogen interactions.

The interplay between host immunity, the microbiota, and cancer is a rapidly evolving area of immuno-oncology. An increasing body of evidence highlights the ...

During 2024, the number of pandemic-prone and epidemic-prone disease outbreaks worldwide was estimated at 301. The data highlight a shift in disease outbreak patterns, with a decline in the number of ...