parasites
Cats and Their Brain-Controlling Parasites Are Targeting Your Children
Says one of the the most fear mongering studies you'll ever read.
In Praise of Predator Parasites: A Chat with Biologist Ryan Hechinger
You are what you eat, and what eats you.
Take Two Poop Worms and Call Me in the Morning
Could harvested intestinal parasites cure autoimmune disease?
The Cure For Allergies and Multiple Sclerosis Might Come from Poop
It may sounds weird, but worms from poop could actually be the cure for a lot of our medical problems. We talked to a man who is pushing for these worms to be commonplace.
Is This Cat Parasite Really Making People Kill Themselves?
The parasite _Toxoplasma gondii_ is already the stuff of _whoa crazy!_ internet lore to a fairly high degree as that thing that you can get from your cat's crap that might cause schizophrenia, via the disease Toxoplasmosis. Indeed, of you're reading...
Inside the Hacking World of Pregnant Lady Beetles
Someday a more ambitious writer than me will write a book about biological hacking, and the biological/evolutionary basis for modern techno-hacking. There's nothing inherently human about hacking, at least in the very crude sense of hacking being...
Parasites, Drivers of Our Evolution, Pushed Us to Have Sex
The Cold War looks like a pillow fight compared to the ancient arms race between humans and the vicious microbes that mate and feed inside them.