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A forward genetic screen in Caenorhabditis elegans identifies a secreted host protein that ensures proper microsporidia spore orientation, resulting in efficient invasion of intestinal cells.

Structures of a gamete fusogen and antibody fragments bound to its domain 3, and inhibition of parasite fertilization, bring us closer to creating a vaccine to block transmission by mosquitoes of malaria from one person to another.

We are writing to respond to the comment by Matthews and Larcombe, 2022 on our article about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei (Schuster et al., 2021).

We are writing to comment on the article by Schuster et al., 2021 about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei.

Following exposure of Leishmania culture promastigotes to DNA stress, single-cell RNA sequencing reveals discrete clusters of cells associated with efficient generation of hybrids between different species and strains in vitro marked by expression of the ancestral gamete fusogen HAP2.

SARS-CoV-2 infection in hamsters causes cardiovascular pathologies.

Integration of clinical patient data, pathogen information and a multi-omic analysis of the gut microbiome reveals key determinants of disease in C. difficile-colonized patients.

A mechanism whereby aminoglycosides-mediated SOS induction in Escherichia coli also promote high-level fluoroquinolone resistance.

Overexpression of interferon-stimulated genes revealed a role for RARRES3 in restricting growth of Toxoplasma gondii by inducing early egress from human cells.

The gene RARRES3 uses an unexpected strategy to eliminate the parasite Toxoplasma gondii from human cells.