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Scientists in Japan have discovered a new species of wasp that induces a zombie-like state in spiders in order to manipulate them into protecting the wasp’s own offspring.
A new study reveals one of the animal world’s more bizarre and gruesome parasitic relationships.
There has been mounting excitement in recent years around the potential for improving treatments by giving people medicines at the right time of day. Turns out it works for fish too.
A new drug that stops the malaria parasite in its tracks, and could be delivered in a single dose, has researchers excited about treatment prospects for the disease.
Acanthamoeba castellanii is a very painful parasite to encounter.
This parasitic infection is endemic in Central and South America, and can lead to serious health complications. Though rare in the US, incidence is starting to increase.
Deadly parasitic worms may sound exotic, but cases are cropping up in new territories.
Intestinal worms (or helminths) are multicellular parasites that live inside the gut. When mature, they can generally be seen with the naked eye. In developing countries with poor sanitation, the most…
Giant pandas aren’t dying like they used to. In the early 1980s, starvation accounted for more than nine out of ten deaths. However, over the past three decades a parasitic gut worm has replaced that as…
Cuckoos are notorious cheats. Instead of building a nest, incubating their eggs and raising their chicks, they lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and leave the task of raising their offspring to…
Reproduction for a female fig wasp can be a nightmarish process. When she is ready to lay her eggs, she leaves the fig in which she was born and became pregnant and searches for another. After she finds…
When you’re sick, you want the most effective treatment to help get you back on your feet. But what if that involved bugs? Maggots and leeches have been used for decades and are still supplied to hospitals…
Onchocerciasis, or river blindness as it’s more commonly known, is a major public health problem in the wet tropics, and especially in tropical Africa. This eye and skin disease is caused by a filaria…
When Galápagos hawks diverge into distinct populations, so too do the lice that call their feathers home. A field study led…
In sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Latin America, there is a parasitic worm that infects about 25m people, causing serious skin diseases, epilepsy and blindness. Known as Onchocerca volvulus, it can live…
Most people are fascinated, and probably equally repulsed, by parasites. And it may be something you think you only need to worry about if you go on holiday somewhere exotic. However, increasing globalisation…
A Melbourne-led global study has mapped the genes of a parasitic worm in pigs, which could help scientists better understand…
For decades, scientists have tried to understand the complex and gruesome relationship between the parasitic emerald wasp Ampulex compressa and its much larger victim, the common household cockroach Periplaneta…
Meet Sacculina carcini – a barnacle that makes a living as a real-life body-snatcher of crabs. Unlike most barnacles that are happy to simply stick themselves to a rock and filter food from the water…
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Lecturer in Parasitology and Evolutionary Biology, University of New England
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Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Gastroenterologist, Western Sydney University
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Parasitology, University of Nottingham
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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ARC Early Career Research Fellow, Social Insect Ecology, Macquarie University
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Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University
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Reader in Ecological Genetics, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professeur, UMR ISYEB (Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité), Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Honorary Professor, Federation University Australia
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Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Sciences, RMIT University
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Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Macquarie University
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Research Fellow, Malaria biochemistry, Monash University
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Professor of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University
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Director of the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford
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Professor of Protozoology, University of Bristol