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 ...

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 ...

On Hacking Humans, this week Dave Bittner is back with Joe Carrigan, and Maria Varmazis (also host of N2K's daily space podcast, T-Minus), and they are sharing the latest in social engineering scams, ...

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 ...

Even so, he was still around two months short of the record for the longest ever spaceflight by a human – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days onboard the Mir Space Station in the ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of ...

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 ...