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'OMG Microscope' Captures Cells In Stunning Color

The Huffington Post | Macrina Cooper-White | Posted 03.28.2013 | Science
Read More: HIV/AIDS, Photos, Video, Microbes, Microscope, Parasites, Biology, Stem Cells, Microbiology, Cancer Cells, Cancer, Cell Biology, Science Photos, Science News

Around 12.7 million people are diagnosed with cancer each year--but how many of us have actually seen a cancer cell up close? New technology develo...

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Have Deadly Viruses Finally Met Their Match?

Posted 03.21.2013 | Science
Read More: Dna, Chemistry, Video, Ebola, Parasites, Infectious Diseases, Biology, Virus, Genetics, Drugs, Diseases, Rabies, Science News

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 03/21/2013 12:05 PM EDT on LiveScience A single compound could stop several viruses, including ...

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Cara Santa Maria

COUNTDOWN: Top Five Science Stories This Week

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 02.23.2013 | Science
Read More: Political Brains, Top Science Stories, HuffPost Live, Top Science News, Video, Zombie Cells, Parasites, Talk Nerdy to Me, Science News This Week, Cara Santa Maria, This Week Science Stories, Science News

From monsters living in our bodies to real-life "zombie" cells, this week's science news has a peculiar sci-fi/horror twist to it. Monsters? Zombies? ...

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Cara Santa Maria

WATCH: Five Monsters Inside Your Body

HuffingtonPost.com | Cara Santa Maria | Posted 02.18.2013 | Science
Read More: Flatworms, Video, Ectoparasites, Human Body, Parasites, Talk Nerdy to Me, Biology, Weird Science, Nematodes, Protozoa, Malaria, Cara Santa Maria, Human Parasites, Endoparasites, Protozoan, Candiru, Science News

Did you know that only one in ten of the cells in your body is actually human? That's right. A whopping 90 percent of your cells are bacterial, viral,...

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LOOK: Squirmy Parasite Called Earth's Commonest Creature

| Posted 02.11.2013 | Science
Read More: Worms, Nematode Roundworms, Parasitic Nematodes, Video, Animals, Parasites, Strelkovimermis Spiculatis, Nematodes, Science News

By Jennifer Frazer The next time you find yourself becoming mosquito chow, remember this video: This is Strelkovimermis spiculatis — a parasitic ...

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WATCH: Huge Parasite Unspools From Dead Spider

The Huffington Post | Jacqueline Howard | Posted 01.18.2013 | Science
Read More: Video, Worm Comes Out of Spider, Parasite Worm Spider, Parasites, Nematodes, Worms, Parasitic Worm, Spiders, Animals, Science News

When YouTube user Brent Askwith saw a freakishly large worm slither out of a spider he had just killed, he recorded the ghoulish event and appropriate...

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Mistletoe and Holly: Sinatra's Paen to Parasitism and Gender Issues?

Dr. Chris Martine | Posted 02.18.2013 | Green
Read More: Pollen, Christmas Carols, Parasites, Biology, Burpee, Lyrics, Bucknell University, Flowers, Chris Martine, Hoboken, Christmas Decorations, Gender Roles, Gender, Sinatra, Pollination, New Jersey, Sex, Christmas, Mistletoe and Holly, Frank Sinatra, Botany, Holly, Mistletoe, Green News
Dr. Chris Martine

"Mistletoe and Holly" is a holiday masterpiece. But I know the biology of those two plants that Mr. Sinatra croons about... and that makes me wonder: Is there more to this song than standard Christmas cheer?

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What You Should Know About Bacteria On Your Body

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 10.31.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Parasites, Multiple Sclerosis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Science, Immunization, Probiotics, Autoimmune Disease, Ecology, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Hygiene, Dr. David Katz, Biodiversity, Antibiotics, Immune Response, Immune System Disease, Immune System, Autoimmune, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

We have long known that bacteria living on and in our bodies outnumber our cells -- which themselves sum up to a number that exceeds any hope of real understanding -- by 20 to one. We are a rounding error in our own skin.

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Man Discovers Parasites In His Chest On 'Diagnosis: Dead Or Alive'

Posted 07.17.2012 | TV
Read More: Discovery Fit and Health, TV Canada, Reality TV, Video, Parasites, Diagnosis Dead or Alive, Tv Replay, TV News

The most recent episode of "Diagnosis: Dead or Alive" (Mon., 10 p.m. ET on Discovery Fit & Health) profiled a man named Kurt's mysterious medical ailm...

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Bloodthirsty Parasite Named After Legendary Musician

Posted 07.11.2012 | Science
Read More: Video, Bob Marley, Caribbean, Parasites, Ecology, Biology, Fish, Blood Feeders, Crustaceans, Zoology, Caribbean Sea, Animals, Coral Reefs, Science News

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 07/10/2012 01:49 PM EDT on LiveScience The late Jamaican musician Bob Marley has joine...

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Creepy Brain Parasite Linked To Suicide

Posted 07.06.2012 | Science
Read More: Psychiatry, Brain Parasites, Cats, Video, Brain, Parasites, Disease, Schizophrenia, Infection, Suicide, Toxoplasma Gondii, Psychology, Science News

By Christie Wilcox | July 4, 2012 We human beings are very attached to our brains. We’re proud of them – of their size and their complexity...

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Cats: Help End a Vicious Interspecies Scam

Alf LaMont | Posted 08.14.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Pets, Parasites, Nyan Cat, Cats, Kitty, Kittens, Toxoplasmosis, Satire, Comedy, Comedy News
Alf LaMont

Owning a cat is the equivalent of allowing a self obsessed and violent psychotic into your home.

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War Against Tree Bug Prompts Unlikely Alliances

AP | VERONICA ZARAGOVIA | Posted 07.07.2012 | Green
Read More: Parasites, Invasive Species, South Dakota, Pine Beetles, South Dakota Pine Beetles, Black Hills Tree Bug, Tree Parasites, Video, Pine Beetle, Black Hills, South Dakota Tree Bug, Environment, Black Hills Pine Beetle, South Dakota Black Hills, Ap, Green News

SPEARFISH CANYON, S.D. (AP) — Joe Shark's Native American heritage taught him to be leery of the timber industry on the South Dakota reservation whe...

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Prehistoric, Dinosaur-Biting Fleas Were HOW Big?

Posted 05.03.2012 | Science
Read More: Giant Fleas, Oregon State University, Video, Pseudopulex Magnus, Parasites, Biology, Pseudopulex Jurassicus, Science, Dinosaurs, Science News, Fossils, Pseudopulex, Fleas, Science News

By: Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Managing Editor Published: 05/03/2012 08:22 AM EDT on LiveScience Paleo-pests about 10 times bigger than today's fl...

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Lynne Peeples

Don't Let The Poop Dry: Why You Should Scoop Fido's Feces While It's Still Fresh

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.13.2011 | Green
Read More: Video, Parasites, Infectious Diseases, Water Pollution, Poop, Roundworms, The Infection Loop, Giardia, Dog Poop, E. Coli, Dogs, Green News

Once a week, Dwight Farias-Rios visits Max's yard to clean up after him. The owner of Call of Doodie, a pet waste removal service in New Jersey, is ty...

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Biting Street Art Targets Bed Bugs

Posted 12.26.2011 | Arts
Read More: Social-Art, Bed Bugs, Hipster Trap, Parasites, Street Art, Bed Bugs New York, Hunter Fine, Insects, Bed Bug Infestation, New York City Bedbugs, Bed Bug Hotel, New York City, Arts News

It's fairly well known that New York has been invaded by bed bugs for some time now. The nearly microscopic blood-suckers have descended upon the city...

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Catherine Pearson

A Sex Parasite Most Common In Women Over 40?

HuffingtonPost.com | Catherine Pearson | Posted 09.11.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Stds, STD Rates, Parasites, Std Women, Trich, Std Older Women, Std Reporting, Std CDC, Sex Education, Std, Women's Health, Sex, Trichomonas, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Sti, Sexually Transmitted Parasite, Sex Parasite, Sexually Transmitted Infections, Std Testing, Video, Healthy Living News

A sex parasite that causes one of the most common sexually transmitted infections is nearly twice as prevalent in women 50 and older, according to new...

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Rule AND Ruin

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Debt Peonage, Plutocrats, Tea-Bangers, Parasites, Richard Nixon, Vandals, Republicans, Kleptocrats, Capitalists, Wrecking Crew, Igmfy, Igmiwy, Politics News
Paula Gordon

We're fighting off a killer infestation. Two, actually. The first is in our solarium and threatens the life of a long-suffering plant. The second is...

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They're Parasites

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Tom Wolfe, Goldman Sachs, Financial Crisis, Sen. Carl Levin, Parasites, Wall Street, Bonfire of the Vanities, Marketism, George W. Bush, Business News
Robert S. McElvaine

While "pirates," "banksters," "roaches," and "leeches" are all apt words to describe the arrogant Wall Streeters we saw testifying this week, there is a more accurate scientific term -- it is time to call a parasite a parasite.

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Africa Water Project Captures Difficulty Of Global Struggle

Joseph B. Treaster | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: One Billion, Leadership, Human, Al Gore, Water-Borne Diseases, Sickness, Congress, Statistics, Dirty, Chyulu Hills, Meaningful, Dying, Hands, Children, Tank, Steven Solomon, Knight Center for International Media, Matt Damon, Policy, Cause, Agenda, Raise Awareness, Clean, Climate Change, Waste, Survive, Political, Water the Epic Struggle for Wealth Power and Civilization, Global Warming, Project, World, Africa, Parasites, Lines, Money, Toilets, Organizational, Problem, University of Miami, Drinking, 2 Billion, Consciousness, No One Is in Charge, Water, Claudine, Bacteria, Book, Kenya, Green News
Joseph B. Treaster

Strong leadership is missing. A few members of Congress have been working on the water problem and Matt Damon, the actor, has made it his cause. But the issue is not getting traction.

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Parasite Diets Warned Against As Weight Loss Strategy In Hong Kong

BusinessWeek | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Diets, Parasites, World, Parasite Diets, Hong Kong, Health, Worms, Living, Weight Loss, Healthy Living News

Hong Kong health officials warned residents against ingesting intestinal worms as a weight-loss remedy after Web sites were found to be promoting so-c...

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Kids' Book About Parasites Full Of Gross-Out Fun

Boing Boing | Cory Doctorow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Kids' Science Books, Boing Boing, Science Books, Kids' Books, New Books, Books, Children's Books, What's Eating You?, Parasites, Gross Out, Books News

The publishers of "What's Eating You?: Parasites -- The Inside Story" were kind enough to send me a copy of this science picture book for young reader...

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Time to Just Say No to Giant Corporate "Parasites" -- and Recognize Them for What They Are

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Public Health Insurance Plan, President Obama, Parasites, Public Option, Blackwater, Anti-Trust Laws, Health Care Reform, Breaking News, Banks, Private Military Security Contractors, Medicare Advantage, Health Insurance, Student Loan Programs, Health Insurance Reform, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The corporate parasites are the loudest defenders of "free markets" and the most vociferous opponents of "government takeovers," when in fact they exist by feeding off the taxpayers.

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Is Your Town Swimming Pool Crawling With Parasites?

nytimes.com | Sarah Arnquist | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Swimming, Swimming Pool, Parasites, Personal Health, Kids, Summer, Health, Healthy Living News

A swimming pool can offer relief from summer heat, but swimmers should know what they are jumping into. It could be a soup of nasty parasites....

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Madonna, Africa and Child Mortality

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Hiv, United Nations, Malaria, Thought Leaders, Tb, Global Citizens, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Raising Malawi, Jim Luce, U.N. Millennium Development Goals, Respiratory Illness, Earth Institute, African Children, Infant Mortality, Africa, Madonna, Parasites, Malawi, Public Health, Mathew Luce, Parenting, Jeffry Sachs, Haiti, David Banda, Columbia University, Diarrhea, Mercy, Millennium Villages, N.Y.U. Medical School, Orphans International Worldwide, Dried Mopane Worms, World News
Jim Luce

The deaths of African children are all about food, water and cooking stoves. There is usually no public health system in place to address this tragic litany of otherwise very approachable issues.

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