Two more kinds of ticks can cause red meat allergies than previously thought. See the new species, learn where all 3 live, ...

A tick found on a bird dog in Montana could forewarn of Lyme disease spreading into the state. What's happening? A ...

In alpha-gal syndrome, the immune system overreacts to a sugar known as galactose-α-1,3-galactose, or "alpha-gal" for short.

A new study by Fikrig and other researchers, published Wednesday in Science Translational Medicine, uses a powerful ...

The woman's third bite was from an Ixodes pacificus tick, also known as the western black-legged tick, indicating the critter might also be linked to AGS. "Commercial laboratories have documented ...

New cases of alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) have emerged in areas outside the habitat of the lone star tick, suggesting other tick species, like black-legged ticks, may be responsible. AGS, an allergy to ...

Other recorded species include the Asian longhorn tick and Ixodes cookei. Research has shown some adult ticks can overwinter, even during freezing cold conditions. Spring has come to Rochester and ...

To validate his theory, he focused on a 77 amino acid-long GRP fragment (GRP77), of which 26 percent are glycine, in the hard tick Ixodes scapularis. AlphaFold predicted that GRP77 is highly ...

The group of blood-sucking parasites called ticks can spread pathogens like Lyme Disease, anaplasmosis and babesiosis.