Parasitic tapeworm larvae release glutamate and other excitatory molecules that can directly excite brain neurons.

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This valuable manuscript investigates the localisation of nutrient receptors in bloodstream stage trypanosomes, with implications for both nutrient uptake and immune evasion. Results after direct ...

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If you’ve ever wondered what a tapeworm looks like close-up, you might be in for a shock. There are plenty of creepy things that we don’t want to think about going on in our body, while the idea of a ...

The features on the first slide shown in the video are actually bits of string, dust and other debris that Kamburov stuck onto a hot dog slice before turning on the microscope. Another one of his ...

Worms wriggling around in your brain — it’s a particularly gruesome image that sounds like it came straight from a B horror movie. But several parasites can and do infect the central nervous system.

However, eggs may be seen in the faeces by eye or microscope, or the tapeworm may be observed when a camera is inserted into the bowel from the rectum for other procedures.

The parasites which transmit malaria are part of the Plasmodium genus that transmit the disease via the bite of a mosquito. The traditional method of diagnosing this illness involves examining the ...

Tapeworms Have Been Upsetting Stomachs For At Least 99 Million Years, First Fossil Suggests A tentacle trapped in amber is the first body fossil of a tapeworm ever discovered. Maddy Chapman ...