This plant, called a fairy lantern, is a parasite that steals all its energy and nutrients from mycorrhizal fungi that dwell ...

A medical student hopes her award-winning invention for detecting a deadly water parasite could save thousands of people from the risk of infection.

UCCE experts urge producers to monitor their animals for signs of the parasite, which has been moving north from Central and South America.

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People may become infected when they eat unwashed produce hiding the mollusks. Home-growing food and keeping pets also raises the risk.

A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking ...

Scientists claim that mature roundworms which live in the small intestine of raccoons can produce upto 180,000 eggs every day ...

A resilient raccoon-carried parasite is rapidly spreading across Europe, posing a significant neurological risk to humans, ...

An often deadly parasite to some types of animals has been found for the first time in the province, according to a First ...

Theileria, a tick-borne parasite impacting cattle, may be spreading across Kansas in more ways that originally believed. The ...

In Old Norse mythology, Baldr, the son of the god Odin and the goddess Frigg, was slain with a mistletoe spear. Some ...

As tough as medieval chainmail armor and as soft as a contact lens. This material is not taken from science fiction, it is a ...