Researchers have discovered that the bacterial symbiont Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is significantly enriched in ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the corporate ...

A new study has revealed a three-dimensional, near-atomic-resolution view of the ribosome from Babesia divergens, one of ...

This article predates the current owners of Science Blog. It has not been reviewed under the current editorial process and is kept as part of the archive. Fruit flies are typically vulnerable to ...

In the continual arms race between parasites and their hosts, innovation was thought to be the key to a successful attack or defense that one-ups the competition. But sometimes, as in the corporate ...

LANSING, Mich. (News 10) - Cases of the parasitic infection cyclosporiasis continue to appear across the country, with thousands of confirmed diagnoses. Separately, more than one million eggs have ...

La Trobe University researchers have been studying the novel bacterium Mycosynbacter amalyticus —dubbed "microbial dark matter" by scientists—after discovering it has the power to disrupt other ...

Researchers have succeeded in cultivating an ultra-small bacterial strain parasitizing archaea and classified it as new species and genus of Minisyncoccus archaeiphilus. AIST researchers, in ...

Parasites of Fossil Vertebrates: What We Know and What can We Expect from the Fossil Record? / Tommy L. F. Leung -- Fossil Record of Viruses, Parasitic Bacteria and Parasitic Protozoa / George Poinar ...