You know about celebrity perfume lines. You’ve probably seen a famous face on a tequila bottle. But celebrity parasitic worms ...

A parasite that may already be hiding in your brain has a shocking survival trick: it can infect the very immune cells sent to destroy it. Yet most people never get sick, and new research from UVA ...

Scientists discover thousands of new species every year, and a surprising number of those creatures end up named after pop ...

Scientists are naming new species after celebrities-and some choices may surprise you.

Roughly 300 years ago, Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus set out to identify and name every living organism on Earth. He described more than 10,000 species of plants and animals prior to his death, per ...

Ivermectin is a medication that treats some parasitic diseases. There are two types: one that doctors prescribe for certain health conditions in people and another that veterinarians prescribe, which ...