A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

Better well done than wormy! A stomach-turning image of a parasite infection embedded in the muscle of a human body shows the dangers a person can face if they consume undercooked pork. Emergency ...

Toxoplasma gondii is an incredibly pervasive parasite that can infect pretty much any warm-blooded animal, taking up ...

An emergency doctor shared a gruesome CT, which highlighted the damage parasites can inflict upon a human body. According to the NY Post, Dr. Sam Ghali shared an image of a patient's leg muscles, ...

But they can also be home to some pretty disgusting parasites. While it's important to take … The post These ultra-zoomed ...

Sea cucumbers spend their lives prowling the ocean floor, scavenging for food and generally minding their own business. We ...

The tapeworm taenia solium enters the human body by ingesting the parasite’s larval cysts. These eggs can then develop into adult tapeworms in a human’s gut, usually around 5 to 12 weeks ...

This finding prompted the team to test what happens when the parasite comes into direct contact with human sperm in a test tube. After only five minutes of exposure to the parasite, 22.4% of sperm ...

A second transplant patient also became infected, leading their doctors to surmise that their new kidneys were likely to ...

Once inside the body, ... In 2022, Ralston and her team discovered another trick the parasite uses to survive. After biting human cells, it becomes resistant to the immune system.

Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms.Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

Back in 2011, during her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, Ralston observed the parasite under a microscope and found that it was actually taking bites out of human cells.