Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms ...

Lately, social media feeds have been crawling with testimonials about "parasite cleanses" and DIY worm detoxes. Many people may be unknowingly infected, influencers on TikTok and Instagram claim, and ...

Pumpkin seeds have nutritional value that can improve bowel and prostate health, improve sleep and reduce the risk of cancer, according to Cleveland Clinic. False social media claims, however, are ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

For a recent paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers investigated the odd physics of a ...