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Popular Mechanics
December 4, 2009
Allie Townsend |
Can Parasites Heal as Well as Harm? Fringe Fact vs Fiction To sort through TV's "Fringe" theory of using "parasites as medicine," PM talks to molecular parasitologist Peter Hotez to get the real story on worms.   |
Popular Mechanics
February 4, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Could a Designer Virus Turn You Into a Monster? In this week's episode of Fringe, a virus turns a man into a monster. Here from experts how much scientific truth and fiction is in this storyline. |
Popular Mechanics
January 21, 2009
Andrew Moseman |
Cells Skirt Reality and Supersize on Fringe: Hollywood Fact vs Fiction Parasites were back on the TV show Fringe, after making a factually-challenged appearance in an earlier episode. |
Salon.com
September 26, 2000
Jill Wolfson |
You're an excellent host Parasites can slip into your body, rewrite your DNA and, sometimes, change your mood. Science writer Carl Zimmer's new book, "Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures," introduces readers to some of nature's most sinister characters... |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Kendall Powell |
Malaria's Weakness With different approaches, two HHMI researchers land on an enzyme critical to the malaria parasite's destructive ways. |
Popular Mechanics
January 22, 2010
Allie Townsend |
Does Fringe's Virus Eradication Plan Hold Up? Is the show's disease from the deep possible? "No," says Dr. William Blattner, director of The Institute of Human Virology. "But it does make for good TV." |
Popular Mechanics
February 11, 2009
Erin McCarthy |
Questions for Fringe Stars: A Love Affair With Out-There Science Popular Mechanics chats with the cast of sci-fi show Fringe about how they prepare for the show, how Fringe compares to the X-Files and what to expect from the rest of the season. |
IDB America
October 2006
Alexandra Russell-Bitting |
Argentine Laboratory Tracks a Killer A new University of Buenos Aires laboratory is addressing one of the neglected diseases the Pan American Health Organization describes as "stigmatizing diseases of poverty that can only be tackled by leadership and a concerted political and economic effort." |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Scientists are targeting surface proteins to battle disease. Now that genomic analyses have identified the genes that express surface proteins, scientists are focusing on how pathogens detect attacks from the human immune system and quickly change their coats. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2007
Lewis Brindley |
Taking the Sting Out of Malaria Scientists have identified sugar chains lining the mosquito's gut that the malaria parasite latches onto to infect the insect. |
D-Lib
June 2002 |
DPDx Investigators from the Division of Parasitic Diseases (DPD), at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), conceived of and developed a project, DPDx, that provides online assistance in identification of parasites and distance-based training. |
Chemistry World
July 23, 2013
Sonja Hampel |
Antigenic sugars identified for Chagas disease Scientists have synthesised the combinations of sugars from the surface of the Chagas disease parasite that trigger the human immune response to it. This could help establish better diagnostic tests for the disease, and even a vaccine. |
Chemistry World
March 22, 2011
Amaya Camara-Campos |
Microfluidics to diagnose sleeping sickness Jonas Tegenfeldt from the University of Lund developed a microfluidic device that separates the parasites in this disease from the blood cells using their shape, because parasites and red blood cells are very difficult to separate by size. |
Chemistry World
December 3, 2012
Laura Howes |
Antimalarials should target female parasites The Plasmodium parasite, unlike humans, for example, does not have different genes coding for different sexes. New antimalarials should target the slower evolving female genes, or those that are expressed by both sexes. |
