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Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

A Western-led interdisciplinary research team is using artificial intelligence (AI) to target a potentially harmful enzyme found in the human body ...

Lasius orientalis and Lasius umbratus—invade and overtake a host ant colony. In both cases, the parasitic ant queen invades the nest and sprays the host colony queen with what is likely formic acid.

Parasitic ants have developed a method to take over colonies with rulers too strong to defeat by direct attack. They use a ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.