A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

The parasite that may already live in your brain can infect the very immune cells trying to destroy it, but new UVA Health ...

Ian Mackay has previously received funding from the NHMRC and ARC. Katherine Arden does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

Late last year, experts confirmed Yellowstone National Park’s first case of the infection — officially known as chronic wasting disease — after a deer carcass found in the Wyoming area of the park ...

New research has uncovered a series of mutations in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein that enhanced the virus' ability to infect the brains of mice. The findings may help scientists understand its ...

A new study reported that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID, can infect dopamine neurons in the brain and trigger senescence -- when a cell loses the ability to grow and divide. The researchers ...

H5N1, known as bird flu, is becoming an increasing problem in the U.S. The virus normally only infects poultry and wild birds, but it's becoming more adept at infecting mammals; so far, it's infected ...

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Malware authors are using an NSA hacking tool to infect Windows computers with a new cryptocurrency miner. Detected under the generic name of Trojan.BtcMine.1259, this trojan was first spotted last ...