Human parasites represent a massive global health challenge, currently affecting billions of people worldwide. A parasite is ...

Threadworms spend up to 10 minutes exploring human skin before finding the best place to burrow in. When a specific dopamine signal is blocked, the worms almost completely stop trying to penetrate the ...

Bioengineered parasites could serve as long-term drug factories for hosts, new research suggests. Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical ...

A phase 2 human clinical trial of an antigen for a parasitic infection caused by hookworms has been shown to be effective in limiting the intensity of infection, paving the way for the development of ...