Climate warming can impact plant quality, which in turn shapes the nutrition and immune defense of insect herbivores like ...

Deaths linked to malaria last year rose last year, the World Health Organization said on Thursday, warning also of an increase in cases and resistance to current treatment. The fight against malaria ...

Researchers have developed a new antimalarial drug candidate designed to address the growing challenge of drug resistance and potentially reduce malaria transmission. Deaths linked to malaria last ...

In 1907, French physician and parasitologist Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “in recognition of his work on the role played by protozoa in causing ...

Lipid droplets (LDs; lipid bodies) are intracellular sites of lipid storage and metabolism present in all cell types. Eukaryotic LDs are involved in eicosanoid production during several inflammatory ...

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 ...

The trillions of microbes in the gastrointestinal tract, known as the gut microbiome, have a major impact on human health and disease. These microbes help us digest food and absorb nutrients; they can ...

A team led by University of Toronto researchers has discovered a new communication pathway between the gut and lung. Their findings highlight how a little-known member of the gut microbiome reshapes ...

New research reveals how marine microbes use an extra membrane that once had digestive functions to boost their yield from photosynthesis. A dense rainforest or other verdant terrestrial vegetation ...

A recent study published in the Science of Total Environment journal reviews the potential for helminth, fungal, and protozoan pathogens to associate with plastisphere. Study: Plastic pollution and ...