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Parasite is a person or organism who lives in on another organism or who lives at the expense of another. A parasite is a sponger, a lazy profiteer, a drain on society.
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APR 16, 2016Videos
White blood cells (leukocytes) are immune system cells that protect the body against diseases and foreign invaders. Whil ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetAPR 15, 2016Microbiology
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found that helminth infection in the gut triggers immune responses that alter ...Written By: Kerry EvansAPR 04, 2016Neuroscience
Toxoplasmosis, sometimes referred to as simply “Toxo,” is an illness that can result from contact with a sin ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 30, 2016Health & Medicine
Controlling the mosquito population that spreads the malaria parasite has long been a technique for reducing the prevale ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 29, 2016Microbiology
Malaria has long been considered a relatively modern disease - researchers thought the modern parasites had only been ar ...Written By: Kerry EvansMAR 08, 2016Cardiology
Malaria killed about 440,000 people—mostly young children—last year, but a new drug candidate may help fight ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 08, 2016Microbiology
A new cell-based model of the human placenta could help explain how pathogens cross from mother to unborn child. The res ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)MAR 06, 2016Health & Medicine
Of course we all know about the grand discovered and undiscovered potential that rainforests harbor for medicinal remedi ...Written By: Kathryn DeMuth SullivanFEB 21, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
A staggering 30-50% of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Thi ...FEB 10, 2016Videos
In January of 2016, doctors extracted a tapeworm that was nearly 20 feet long from a Chinese man. Shockingly, this is no ...JAN 25, 2016Plants & Animals
A 38-year-old man in Shiyan, China had been suffering issues with pain in his stomach, nausea, and an iron deficiency, a ...Written By: Anthony BouchardJAN 22, 2016Immunology
Scientists discovered a process similar to apoptosis in T lymphocytes and natural killer (NK) cells when they attack int ...Written By: Kara MarkerDEC 26, 2015Microbiology
Malaria vaccines have been largely unsuccessful because the body produces a poor antibody response to the parasite. &nbs ...Written By: Kerry EvansDEC 19, 2015Clinical & Molecular DX
In West and Central Africa, a bite from the tsetse fly could send a person in to a fatal coma. Doctors have now develope ...NOV 28, 2015Immunology
Leishmaniasis is an infection disease caused by the bite of infected sand flies, and it's usually found in tropical ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 24, 2015Microbiology
Thanksgiving is fast-approaching, which means many of us will be chowing down on turkey. I thought, “what be ...Written By: Kerry EvansNOV 06, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Trypanosoma brucei is a complex of protozoan parasites that cause a disease known as African sleeping sickness. There ar ...Written By: Sarah HertrichNOV 05, 2015Cancer
A 41-year old man based out of Columbia has reportedly died of a strange type of cancer that doctors had a lot of troubl ...Written By: Anthony BouchardOCT 27, 2015Immunology
We depend on our immune cells to protect us against infections from foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses, and parasit ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 22, 2015Microbiology
A team of investigators recently sequenced the microbiome of a mummy from the Incan capital of Cuzco. The mummy, a ...Written By: Kerry EvansOCT 12, 2015Microbiology
Bacteria have the capacity to produce numerous substances for commercial and industrial applications. Despite this ...Written By: Kerry EvansSEP 30, 2015Cell & Molecular Biology
Plant parasitic nematodes, such as the well-known root-knot nematode and the cyst nematode, invade plant roots near the ...Written By: Sarah HertrichSEP 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
To protect people from infectious disease, clinicians can target pathogens and parasites with medicines such as antibiot ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 17, 2015Microbiology
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen responsible for crown gall disease. I know what you’re thinkin ...Written By: Kerry Evans
APR 16, 2016
Videos
White blood cells (leukocytes) are immune system cells that protect the body against diseases and foreign invaders. Whil
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
APR 15, 2016
Microbiology
Researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center found that helminth infection in the gut triggers immune responses that alter
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
APR 04, 2016
Neuroscience
Toxoplasmosis, sometimes referred to as simply “Toxo,” is an illness that can result from contact with a sin
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 30, 2016
Health & Medicine
Controlling the mosquito population that spreads the malaria parasite has long been a technique for reducing the prevale
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 29, 2016
Microbiology
Malaria has long been considered a relatively modern disease - researchers thought the modern parasites had only been ar
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
MAR 08, 2016
Cardiology
Malaria killed about 440,000 people—mostly young children—last year, but a new drug candidate may help fight
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 08, 2016
Microbiology
A new cell-based model of the human placenta could help explain how pathogens cross from mother to unborn child. The res
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
MAR 06, 2016
Health & Medicine
Of course we all know about the grand discovered and undiscovered potential that rainforests harbor for medicinal remedi
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
FEB 21, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A staggering 30-50% of the world’s population is estimated to be infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. Thi
...
FEB 10, 2016
Videos
In January of 2016, doctors extracted a tapeworm that was nearly 20 feet long from a Chinese man. Shockingly, this is no
...
JAN 25, 2016
Plants & Animals
A 38-year-old man in Shiyan, China had been suffering issues with pain in his stomach, nausea, and an iron deficiency, a
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
JAN 22, 2016
Immunology
Scientists discovered a process similar to apoptosis in T lymphocytes and natural killer (NK) cells when they attack int
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
DEC 26, 2015
Microbiology
Malaria vaccines have been largely unsuccessful because the body produces a poor antibody response to the parasite. &nbs
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
DEC 19, 2015
Clinical & Molecular DX
In West and Central Africa, a bite from the tsetse fly could send a person in to a fatal coma. Doctors have now develope
...
NOV 28, 2015
Immunology
Leishmaniasis is an infection disease caused by the bite of infected sand flies, and it's usually found in tropical
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 24, 2015
Microbiology
Thanksgiving is fast-approaching, which means many of us will be chowing down on turkey. I thought, “what be
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
NOV 06, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Trypanosoma brucei is a complex of protozoan parasites that cause a disease known as African sleeping sickness. There ar
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
NOV 05, 2015
Cancer
A 41-year old man based out of Columbia has reportedly died of a strange type of cancer that doctors had a lot of troubl
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
OCT 27, 2015
Immunology
We depend on our immune cells to protect us against infections from foreign invaders like bacteria, viruses, and parasit
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 22, 2015
Microbiology
A team of investigators recently sequenced the microbiome of a mummy from the Incan capital of Cuzco. The mummy, a
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
OCT 12, 2015
Microbiology
Bacteria have the capacity to produce numerous substances for commercial and industrial applications. Despite this
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 30, 2015
Cell & Molecular Biology
Plant parasitic nematodes, such as the well-known root-knot nematode and the cyst nematode, invade plant roots near the
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
SEP 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
To protect people from infectious disease, clinicians can target pathogens and parasites with medicines such as antibiot
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 17, 2015
Microbiology
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen responsible for crown gall disease. I know what you’re thinkin
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans