Threadworms spend up to 10 minutes exploring human skin before finding the best place to burrow in. When a specific dopamine signal is blocked, the worms almost completely stop trying to penetrate the ...

Parasites are organisms that feed off their hosts for survival. Such parasitic creatures can cause mild to serious symptoms and, in some cases, fatal infections in their hosts. “Overall, parasites ...

Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey have discovered that a protein produced by parasitic worms in the gut enhances wound healing in mice. The study, to be published August 23 in the ...

The first time most people hear about mango worms, the reaction is disbelief. It sounds fake, exaggerated, or like something ...

When most people think of worms, they imagine harmless garden creatures wriggling through soil. Yet, the world of worms is far more sinister. Some are terrifying predators, invasive parasites, or ...

Blood samples of patients infected with a parasitic worm that causes schistosomiasis contain hidden information that marks different stages of the disease. In our recently published research, our team ...

The first human case of a deadly, flesh-eating parasite called “new world screwworm” has been detected in the United States, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. According to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The discovery of a schistosomiasis parasite egg in a 6,200-year-old grave in Syria may be the earliest evidence that agricultural irrigation systems in the Middle East contributed ...