A single dose of the drug nitisinone could render a person’s blood lethal to mosquitoes for five days, modelling suggests.

For dogs housed at Texas kennels, age and fecal score are important factors for screening for subclinical Giardia infections.

The pathogens Giardia duodenalis and Cryptosporidium are common causes of sometimes-fatal intestinal diseases in humans, other mammals and birds ...

Avian flu, mad cow disease, hantavirus, black plague and other notorious ailments originated with animals and made the jump ...

Key points A 40-year-old man was referred to our internal medicine clinic for assessment of a 3-month history of unintentional weight loss and daily night sweats with subjective fevers. He had been ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

Researchers from Auburn University, in a landmark collaboration with Brazil's Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ), the world's ...

It's a good idea to trim fingernails too, to prevent the eggs from getting caught under them. Threadworms aren't the only worms (helminths) that invade humans. Hookworms, for example, affect about 470 ...

This means that tool technology predates the emergence of our genus, Homo, and that it is not a uniquely human trait, as was long believed. British palaeoanthropologist Kenneth Oakley in the late ...

“Where other AI stops at generating ideas, Manus delivers results. We see it as the next paradigm of human-machine collaboration.” Within days of launching, invitation codes to join early ...

This is an extract from Our Human Story, our newsletter about the revolution in archaeology. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every month. Let’s talk about the biggest coincidence in human ...

Despite these concerns, most executives envision collaboration over replacement. Sixty-four percent expect humans and AI to work side by side, with only 21% predicting AI will take the lead role.