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 ...

A common parasite long thought to lie dormant is actually much more active and complex. Researchers found that Toxoplasma ...

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 ...

If you've ever woken up in a cold sweat with the gnawing certainty that your blood is infected by rare tropical parasites -- and which of us hasn't -- then it will come as welcome news that a cure may ...

Using millions of microscope images magnified up to 130,000 times, researchers from Radboud university medical center and Toronto have unraveled the structure of two key proteins in the malaria ...

Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T-cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...

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, ...

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