The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World ...

James Collins, center, has a discussion with students at a UT Southwestern facility in Dallas, Texas, on July 19, 2024. Jason Janik / Special Contributor James Collins never set out to study blood ...

Members of the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) may avail of benefits of up to almost PHP30,000 for the ...

Blood flukes represent a diverse group of parasitic trematodes that exhibit complex lifecycles intricately linked to marine host species. Predominantly infecting the circulatory system of fish, these ...

Gene clues Scientists have unravelled the genetic code of the blood parasite that causes an insidious tropical disease linked to bladder cancer and HIV/AIDS in Africa. The international team, led by ...

Remember that couple you knew, the ones who went out on a date and instantly fell in love, who had been together for years and seemed as happy together as the day they met, the ones who gave you hope ...

Scientists can interfere with sperm production in the parasitic blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni by blocking expression of the Nuclear Factor Y-B gene (NF-YB). Scientists can interfere with sperm ...

In 1980, a man walked into the Royal Perth Hospital in Australia, complaining that he was tired. He had been tired at that point for two years. The man’s medical history offered no good clues–at 44, ...

Surgery is not strictly a matter of cutting into patients and cutting something out. The A.M.A. last week heard about a new operation designed not to cut out but to filter out the tiny parasites that ...