Researchers say they have mapped more than 200,000 cells in a cubic centimeter of brain tissue and have traced how they're all connected.

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Malaria parasites undergo an extensive metamorphosis after invasion of erythrocytes. This induces an increase in the surface ...

A research team from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified a ...

Intestinal infection by an adult tapeworm is called taeniasis. In humans, although the tapeworm can cause an upset stomach, it can also be asymptomatic – apart from rice grain-sized eggs in the ...

A 41-year-old man from Hanoi, suffering from years of seizures and chronic headaches, recently discovered that a tapeworm had been living inside his brain. The patient reported experiencing daily ...

Ecological network management provides key mechanistic knowledge on ecosystem degradation that links species- to ecosystem-level responses to global change, and emerging technological tools offer the ...

They searched for genetic signatures of parasites in her cerebrospinal fluid and got a strong hit. The genetic sequencing matched Angiostrongylus cantonensis, also known as rat lungworm.

These findings demonstrate that the capsular serotype and genetic background significantly impact pneumococcal growth kinetics. The resultant growth features likely depend on the interaction between ...