Apicomoplexa are unicellular parasitic protists with no locomotory organelles (flagella, pseudopods or cilia); however, some species possess motile structures, such as flagella or pseudopods, only in ...

Regulated cell death (RCD) involves a genetically encoded molecular machinery, which can be altered by means of pharmacologic and/or genetics interventions targeting the key components of such ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely ...

An analysis of sewer drains from a Roman fort has shown that the occupants were contaminated with three types of intestinal ...

This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

Toxoplasma gondii is a protozoan parasite famous for its cunning ways. This microbial manipulator can only reproduce inside of cats, so, if it finds itself in another mammalian host, like a rat, it ...

Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego and the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have found that compounds produced by ...

Researchers have analyzed drinking water and detected oocysts of Cryptosporidium and cysts of Giardia, two protozoa that cause outbreaks of diarrhea in humans. The levels detected are very low and do ...

4 Laboratory of Genetics, Immunology and Human Pathologies, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, El Manar University, 2092 Tunis, Tunisia 5 Molecular Modeling Unit, Pasteur Institute of Tunis, 1002 ...