In a nutshell A rare disease drug may help fight malaria. Nitisinone, a medication approved for rare genetic conditions, ...

A SHOCKING new report has highlighted how a trip to your local park could leave you blind. Soil tests from parks in Dublin, ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

One of the aims of metabolomics research is to identify the mechanisms involved in the development and progress of a disease. The significance of prevention, treatment and slowing down the progression ...

Irish researchers have pinpointed the exact locations in public parks that are most heavily contaminated with a parasite that ...

A new study suggests that never-seen-before stem cells in the human retina can restore vision in mice with a common eye ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...