Chagas disease is caused by a parasite, transmitted by a blood-sucking insect — Trypanosoma cruzi — and less frequently, from mother to fetus or by contaminated […]
Nearly 700 million people suffer from mosquito-borne diseases — such as malaria, West Nile, Zika and dengue fever — each year, resulting in more than 1 […]
Scientists have solved the structure of a key protein that senses when our cells swell. How a 'jellyfish'-shaped structure relieves pressure in your cells How a […]
In the Qinghai-Tibet plateau, one of the region’s highest risk areas for human plague, Himalayan marmots are the primary carriers of the infectious bacterium Y. pestis. […]
