The tropical disease known as sleeping sickness is caused by the African Trypanosoma brucei parasite. For decades, scientists ...

A stealthy parasite behind deadly sleeping sickness has been caught using an astonishing trick to evade the human immune system. Credit: Shutterstock A deadly parasite stays hidden by shredding its ...

Doing research in the field on hookworm, a parasite that affects about 2 billion people, a doctor needed to find a way to look at the anemia-causing bugs without a microscope. There’s not an app for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prick a finger and have the blood checked for parasites — by smartphone? Scientists are turning those ubiquitous phones into microscopes and other medical tools that could help fight ...

Rajshekhar Gaji was staring at something that should not exist. Under his microscope, parasites that should have been thriving were instead dying—completely unable to survive without a protein his lab ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Artificial intelligence is being integrated into phones, search engines, and recently, microscopes. At Appalachian State University, ...

Around the world, diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis (TB) continue to plague millions of people, causing severe illness and death. In recent years, scientists developed more effective drugs ...

App State researchers received $2.3M to commercialize an AI-driven microscope. The microscope automates fecal egg counting to identify livestock parasites faster. Tool aims to reduce disease, cut ...