Pests and Parasites News
May 14, 2024
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May 13, 2024 An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study. The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned from the cowpea mosaic virus -- a virus that ...
May 9, 2024 A new model for predicting the effects of climate change on malaria transmission in Africa could lead to more targeted interventions to control the disease according to a new study. Previous methods have used rainfall totals to indicate the presence ...
May 8, 2024 An international team has found a family of natural compounds with potential as new and more effective treatments for parasitic worms. The compounds stall the unique metabolic process that worms use to survive in the human ...
May 8, 2024 Scientists have confirmed the identity of an unusual, ancient and Endangered species of fish that is living in the coastal rivers of Queensland, about 1400 km north of where it was previously known ...
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May 8, 2024 Adjuvants make vaccines more effective, though one of the best is an expensive extract from the soap bark tree. To lower the cost and avoid the laborious extraction process from bark, synthetic ...
May 7, 2024 How well bees tolerate temperature extremes could determine their ability to persist in a changing climate. But heat tolerance varies between and within populations, so entomologists examined bee ...
May 3, 2024 Recent findings that plants employ a drought-survival mechanism to also defend against nutrient-sucking pests could inform future crop breeding programs aimed at achieving better broadscale pest ...
May 3, 2024 The placenta's response to infections from malaria, toxoplasmosis and listeria has been mapped in high resolution, possibly paving the way for new treatment ...
May 2, 2024 Natural malaria infections have been genetically analysed at a higher resolution than ever before, giving insights that could help understand and ...
May 2, 2024 The length of telomeres in white blood cells, known as leukocytes, varies significantly among sub-Saharan African populations, researchers report. Moreover, leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is ...
May 2, 2024 A wild orangutan was observed applying a plant with known medicinal properties to a wound, a first for a wild ...
May 1, 2024 A parasite that not only feeds of its host, but also makes the host change its own metabolism and thus biology. Microbiologists have shown this for the very first time in a specific group of ...
May 1, 2024 Researchers uncover why some homes in rural Madagascar where bubonic plague is endemic are infested with fleas. Based on their findings, they ...
May 1, 2024 Scientists have discovered that calcium plays a significant role in enhancing the resistance of potato plants to bacterial ...
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Apr. 24, 2024 A groundbreaking study combined novel experimental data within an innovative modeling framework to examine how temperature might affect transmission risk of malaria in different environments in ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A new study sheds light on how parasites, often overlooked, can dramatically affect the balance between predator and prey populations. Researchers developed a groundbreaking mathematical framework ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Researchers have developed a deep learning tool that is capable of reliably diagnosing moon blindness in horses based on ...
Apr. 23, 2024 A rapidly spreading virus threatens the health of the cacao tree and the dried seeds from which chocolate is made, jeopardizing the global supply of the world's most popular treat. Researchers ...
Apr. 22, 2024 New study finds microbes may influence the taste of mustard ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Parasites thought only to infect tropical coral reefs have been discovered in a large variety of creatures in cold marine ecosystems along the Northeast Pacific, according to new ...
Apr. 9, 2024 Scientists describe a new mechanism impacting the phage-bacterial arms race, a nanosized epibiotic parasite, TM7x, which helps its host bacterium (a Schaalia odontolytica strain called XH001) achieve ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Did you know that the world's deadliest animal is the mosquito? And Aedes aegypti is one of the most dangerous. This bug spreads viruses that cause dengue fever, which was recently declared as ...
Apr. 4, 2024 Researchers have shown that levels of anisakid worms -- a common marine parasite -- rose in two salmon species in the Gulf of Alaska and Bristol Bay over a 42-year period. The team discovered this by ...
Apr. 3, 2024 A fungus devastating frogs and toads on nearly every continent may have an Achilles heel. Scientists have discovered a virus that infects the fungus, and that could be engineered to save the ...
Apr. 3, 2024 A recent breakthrough sheds light on how the malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, invades human red blood cells. The study reveals the role of a sugar called sialic acid in this invasion process. ...
Apr. 1, 2024 A group of researchers is calling on colleagues around the world to join them in what they call 'pathogen prospecting' by tracking down archival specimens of mosquitoes in museums and other ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Scientists created a highly accurate reference genome for one of the most important modern crops and found a rare example of how genes confer disease resistance in plants. Exploring sugarcane's ...
Mar. 26, 2024 Researchers have come up with a new, more accurate method for detecting in ticks the emerging Powassan virus, which can cause life-threatening neuroinvasive disease, including encephalitis and ...
Mar. 21, 2024 A product used to control pest slugs on farms in multiple countries is deadly to least one type of native woodland snail endemic to the Pacific Northwest, according to scientists who say more study ...
Mar. 21, 2024 Following injury, plants release terpenoids to enhance their defenses. Researchers studying terpenoid-enriched essential oils (EOs) have found that rose EO (REO) can stimulate defense genes in tomato ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Infectious diseases specialists call the medical field to be ready to deal with the impact of climate change on spreading diseases, such as malaria, Valley fever, E. coli and Lyme ...
Mar. 15, 2024 Researchers believe a group of killer whales observed hunting marine mammals including sperm whales, as well as a sea turtle, in the open ocean off California and Oregon could be a new population. ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Scientists have confirmed that a potentially fatal dog parasite is present in a portion of the Colorado River that runs through ...
Mar. 12, 2024 The fertility of both female and male tsetse flies is affected by a single burst of hot weather, researchers have ...
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
- Can Climate Change Accelerate Transmission of Malaria? Pioneering Research Sheds Light on Impacts of Temperature
- How Parasites Shape Complex Food Webs
- AI Tool Recognizes Serious Ocular Disease in Horses
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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Wednesday, March 27, 2024
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Thursday, March 21, 2024
- Product That Kills Agricultural Pests Also Deadly to Native Pacific Northwest Snail
- Rose Essential Oil: A Safe Pesticide for Organic Agriculture
Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Friday, March 15, 2024
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Monday, March 11, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- How Does a Virus Hijack Insect Sperm to Control Disease Vectors and Pests?
- The Malaria Parasite Generates Genetic Diversity Using an Evolutionary 'copy-Paste' Tactic
Monday, February 26, 2024
- Temperature, Humidity May Drive Future Transmission of Parasitic Worm Infections
- Blindness from Some Inherited Eye Diseases May Be Caused by Gut Bacteria
Friday, February 16, 2024
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
- The Role of Jellies as a Food Source in the Arctic Winter
- Climate Change Drove the Emergence of West Nile Virus in Europe
- Red Nets Signal 'stop' To Insect Pests, Reduce Need for Insecticides
Thursday, February 8, 2024
- Scientists Debunk Role of 'junk Cells' In Fight Against Malaria
- Researchers Uncover Genetic Factors for Severe Lassa Fever
- Surprise Discovery of Tiny Insect-Killing Worm
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Friday, January 26, 2024
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Friday, January 12, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Monday, January 8, 2024
Thursday, January 4, 2024
- Classifying the Natural History of Asymptomatic Malaria
- Scientists Engineer Plant Microbiome to Protect Crops Against Disease
Friday, December 22, 2023
- Stinky, Bitter, and Painful: A Novel Insect Repellent Attacks Multiple Sensory Pathways
- How Jellyfish Regenerate Functional Tentacles in Days
Monday, December 18, 2023
- Hotter Weather Caused by Climate Change Could Mean More Mosquitoesv
- New Understanding of Ancient Genetic Parasite May Spur Medical Breakthroughs
Friday, December 15, 2023
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Monday, December 4, 2023
Friday, December 1, 2023
Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Harnessing the Power of a Parasite That Can Stop Pain
- The Waxy Surface Protecting Plants Might Hold the Key to Developing Stronger Crops
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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Monday, November 20, 2023
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Wednesday, November 8, 2023
- Head Lice Evolution Mirrors Human Migration and Colonization in the Americas
- 'Alien' Wasps Thriving in Tropical Forests
- First Evidence of How the Asian Malaria Mosquito Is Spreading Drug-Resistant Malaria in Africa
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Monday, October 30, 2023
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
- Sunflower Extract Fights Fungi to Keep Blueberries Fresh
- Soil Carried on Sea Freight Loaded With Dangerous Pests and Diseases, Research Finds
Monday, October 23, 2023
- Discovery Finds Ferns Produce Crop-Saving Insecticide
- Plants Transformed Into Detectors of Dangerous Chemicals
- Fungal Evolution Discovered: Mycena Can Now Invade Living Hosts
Friday, October 20, 2023
- What Do New Moms and Roaches Have in Common?
- Potential for Injectable 'chemical Vaccine' For Malaria Using Atovaquone
Tuesday, October 17, 2023
- How to Help Save Plants from Extinction
- Cocoa Pods -- A Source of Chocolate, and Potentially, Flame Retardants
Thursday, October 12, 2023
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Monday, October 9, 2023
Friday, October 6, 2023
Thursday, October 5, 2023
Wednesday, October 4, 2023
- New Type of Tiny Wasp Comes With Mysterious, Cloud-Like Structures at Ends of Antennae
- Meadow Spittlebug's Record-Breaking Diet Also Makes It Top Disease Carrier for Plants
Friday, September 29, 2023
- A Lethal Parasite's Secret Weapon: Infecting Non-Immune Cells
- Malaria: Treatment of Plasmodium Falciparum Malaria Patients Under Threat in the Horn of Africa
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
Friday, September 22, 2023
Thursday, September 21, 2023
- New Strategies Reduce Treatment Failure in Malaria by Up to 81%
- This Parasitic Plant Convinces Hosts to Grow Into Its Own Flesh--It's Also an Extreme Example of Genome Shrinkage
- Nanoparticles Made from Plant Viruses Could Be Farmers' New Ally in Pest Control
Wednesday, September 20, 2023
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Sunday, September 17, 2023
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
- Disease-Resistant Rice and Wheat Plants May Modulate Disease Susceptibility in Their Neighbors
- Movement Sensors Can Detect Disease in Wild Boar
Monday, September 11, 2023
- Malaria-Causing Parasites Resistant to Both Treatment and Detection Have Emerged in Ethiopia
- 'A Crab Is Never Just a Crab'