A study reveals how gut immune cells signal the brain to reduce appetite, with acetylcholine-driven activation of serotonin ...

Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

Scientists finally cracked the mystery of why infections kill your appetite—and it all starts with hidden gut cells talking to your brain.

Anyone who has weathered a bad stomach bug knows the feeling: a loss of appetite that sets in and lingers, even after the ...

Why do parasites cause loss of appetite? Scientists have identified a gut-to-brain signaling pathway involving tuft cells and ...

It infects nearly one-third of the global population, yet its microscopic size makes the Toxoplasma gondii parasite difficult ...

Scientists have uncovered how your body actually tells your brain to stop eating when you’re sick. In a new study, researchers found that specialized cells in the gut detect parasites and send signals ...

An apicomplexan parasite (green) without the CLAMP complex is unable to invade a host cell (gray). Credit: Wandy Beaty/ Washington University An apicomplexan parasite (green) without the CLAMP complex ...

Malaria is caused by a eukaryotic microbe of the Plasmodium genus, and is responsible for more deaths than all other parasitic diseases combined. In order to transmit from the human host to the ...

Scientists at Stockholm University and collaborators say they have used high-resolution genomic tools to map the global repertoire of genes of gametocyte development toward the male or the female ...

Tajie Harris, PhD, is the director of the Center for Brain Immunology and Glia (BIG Center) at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. The parasite that may already live in your brain can ...