Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of hundreds of fat winter ticks on a moose Winter ticks are killing moose across New England in alarming numbers, ...

Research led by University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine Professor Hameeda Sultana and alumni postdoctoral fellow Waqas Ahmed has identified a tick protein that could help block disease ...

Sometimes the best way to stop a parasite is to understand it at its smallest scale. In this case, the key to combatting ticks may lie within microscopic packages only billionths of a meter wide. One ...