A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...

Parasites don’t need to look like movie creatures to cause trouble. Many are microscopic, slip in through everyday exposures, and settle into places most people never think about. Soil, food, ...

A University of California, Riverside team of scientists has found that Toxoplasma gondii, a common parasite affecting up to ...

A parasite that lives permanently in the brains of millions may not be as uniformly dormant as scientists once thought. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have recently found ...

Advances in vaccine technology, antibody therapies, and genetic surveillance are giving researchers new tools to fight ...

Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that ...