New artemisinin-resistant strains of the malaria-causing parasite Plasmodium falciparum are spreading rapidly in Cambodia, an international group of scientists says in a research paper that also reveals how the drug-resistant strains can be identified from their genetic fingerprints. Senior...
Virginia Tech researchers successfully used a gene disruption technique to change the eye color of a mosquito - a critical step toward new genetic strategies aimed at disrupting the transmission of diseases such as dengue fever. Zach Adelman and Kevin Myles, both associate professors of...
A group of diseases that kill millions of people each year can't be touched by antibiotics, and some treatment is so harsh the patient can't survive it. They're caused by parasites, and for decades researchers have searched for a "magic bullet" to kill them without harming the patient. Now, a...
Fruit flies infected with a blood-borne parasite consume alcohol to self-medicate, a behavior that greatly increases their survival rate, an Emory University study finds. "We believe our results are the first to show that alcohol consumption can have a protective effect against infectious...
For ages, cat people have desperately trying to shake the personal of, well, being crazy cat people. Do they sometimes wear sweaters with cats on them? Sure. Do they read Cat Fancy cover-to-cover? Perhaps. Are they possibly being driven toward schizophrenia*and other forms of mental illness by...
Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers and colleagues seeking to block invasion of healthy red blood cells by malaria parasites have instead succeeded in locking the parasites within infected blood cells, potentially containing the disease. The findings reveal an essential step in...
Millions of people in both the developing and developed world may benefit from new immune-system research findings from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The Penn Vet researchers, studying how the immune system operates, have discovered a previously unidentified cell...
Millions of people in both the developing and developed world may benefit from new immune-system research findings from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. The Penn Vet researchers, studying how the immune system operates, have discovered a previously unidentified cell...
"Closantel, an older drug used to treat a parasitic liver disease in animals, may prove effective at combating river blindness in humans, a major cause of infection-related blindness, U.S. researchers said on Monday," Reuters reports (Steenhuysen, 2/8). "People contract river blindness...
Malaria parasites are able to disguise themselves to avoid the host's immune system, according to research funded by the Wellcome Trust and published recently in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Malaria is one of the world's biggest killers, responsible for over a...
..I have a 6 month old kitten my mom suprised me with on my birthday by the name of Ringo Bellamy. She and I are super close, we pretty much do everything from sleeping to eating together. I love her very much. Well anyways, today while I was doing my makeup, she rolled on her back and stretched...
I bought a Molly today and stuck in my tank. It ended up having a parasite on it. It was only in the tank for a few hours. Can my other fish get the parasites and should I treat my tank? What is the best treatment? Thank You!
I already returned the sick fish and got a new one from a...
And ANY other worms/parasites in the human body? This, again, is for my dad... :o
Please, give as much information as you can. Good websites and sources are appreciated, as well.
I have some weird stuff in my fish tank, and I can't figure out what a lot of it is. I'm pretty sure that the fish have ich, and also there are some things on the bottom of the tank on the gravel; one of the things is that there are these weird, small, curly, white tubes. The other are these...