Researchers efficiently clear mice of the parasites that cause leishmaniasis, Chagas disease, and sleeping sickness by inhibiting the parasites’ kinetoplastid proteasomes.

Lacing insect food with microbes encoding double-stranded RNAs can suppress insect gene expression.

An assassin bug, which some researchers are using as living syringes to sample blood from birds and mammals, feeds on a bat.

Can screening dogs for Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies inform public health officials about the risk of Chagas disease to people?

Researchers whose work requires that they draw blood from wild animals are finding unlikely collaborators in biting insects.

Joel Cohen uses the tools of mathematics to deconstruct questions of life.

A public-private partnership including 13 pharmaceutical companies pledge more than $785 million to fight neglected tropical diseases.