Researchers at Hainan University showed that vaccinating rabbits with recombinant Mucin-6 from the tick Rhipicephalus linnaei ...

The Asian Longhorned tick (ALHT) is making its way across the continent — the pest has established populations in more than ...

With ticks carrying Lyme disease more abundant than ever in Connecticut, a major drug company is moving forward with a vaccine for the ailment despite some mixed results in a new clinical trial.

With the Asian longhorned tick marching across the U.S., cattle producers now have a new tool in their herd health toolbox: a first-of-its-kind platform vaccine.

Ticks are one of humanity’s most dastardly adversaries: tiny, at times nigh-invisible arthropods that burrow into your skin, leech your blood, and sometimes transfer debilitating disease before they ...

A new laboratory-stage mRNA vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognize the saliva from tick bites could prevent these bugs from feeding on and transmitting tick-borne diseases to people, ...

Ticks and the diseases they carry are only becoming more common. But new treatments and vaccines might not be too far off. Reading time 5 minutes Summer in the U.S. is now in full swing. That means ...

Professor Hameeda Sultana, on research that's identifying a tick protein to help block transmissions.(Image Credit: Photo by S. Bridges, courtesy of the University of Tennessee.) The last thing you ...