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Scientists at Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered a benefit of vitamin C deficiency: protection from a major parasitic disease. Their research suggests an explanation for ...
Dec 30, 2025
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A series of compounds that deprive iron essential for a parasitic worm could provide effective new agents for blocking parasite growth, a RIKEN researcher has found. This finding, published in the journal Tropical Medicine ...
Dec 23, 2025
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New research shows that it's possible to end the practice of using people as human bait to catch and test the black flies that spread river blindness (onchocerciasis). The study by international non‐profit Sightsavers in ...
Nov 13, 2025
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Millions of very young children currently excluded from treatment with the drug ivermectin could be safely included in ongoing campaigns against challenging and often neglected tropical diseases such as intestinal worms, ...
Nov 10, 2025
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Scientists at ARUP Laboratories have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that detects intestinal parasites in stool samples more quickly and accurately than traditional methods, potentially transforming how labs ...
Oct 23, 2025
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A new study has uncovered a key difference between the immune system of males and females—and it comes down to a single gene. The study is published in The Journal of Immunology.
Aug 28, 2025
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It's been a long-accepted reality that with age comes increased inflammation—so widely accepted it's been dubbed "inflammaging." With this increase in age-related chronic inflammation also comes serious health concerns, such ...
Aug 20, 2025
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Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding to find the best place for entry before burrowing in. But disrupting a particular dopamine-sensing ...
Aug 13, 2025
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A study of migrants in Italy has shown how statistical modeling can help improve the identification of neglected tropical disease (NTD) infections.
Jul 31, 2025
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A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that artificial intelligence (AI) combined with portable digital microscopy improves the detection of intestinal worm infections, so-called soil-transmitted helminth (STH) in resource-limited ...
Jul 3, 2025
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