As tough as medieval chainmail armor and as soft as a contact lens. This material is not taken from science fiction, it is a natural structure made of thousands of DNA circles interlinked with each ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117, No. 50 (December 15, 2020), pp. 32098-32104 (7 pages) The deadly symptoms of malaria occur as Plasmodium ...

New discoveries about the malaria parasite made by researchers at Columbia and Drexel universities could change the way malaria is treated in the future. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci ...

The study of helminth parasites in amphibians encompasses a broad range of parasitic worms including nematodes, trematodes and cestodes. These organisms, adapted to exploit amphibian hosts, play ...

From ‘Alien’ to ‘The Last of Us,’ parasites have a gruesome reputation. But parasitologists are finding ways to change the conversation. A nematomorpha parasite wriggling from a dead bush-cricket.