Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have ...

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Parasitic infections or worms can affect anyone, regardless of age or location. While often associated with unsanitary ...

The New World Screwworm is a larva or maggot of the New World Screwworm fly, which lays eggs in a wound or live tissue like ...

Discover the significance of C. elegans in biological research, from Nobel Prize-winning discoveries to insights into gene ...

New research reveals that canine hookworms in Australia are developing growing resistance to drugs. New research indicates ...

New research reveals how electrical synapses filter sensory input, helping animals choose actions based on context.

About a year after Jimmy Carter left the White House, he founded the Carter Center in 1982, based on a “fundamental commitment to human rights and the alleviation of human suffering.” That mission ...

In Brazil’s Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland, Paul Raad crouched in the undergrowth, scanning the ground for ...

Across most of the Northeast, getting bitten by a blacklegged tick—also called a deer tick—is a risk during spring, summer, ...

I would like to see Guinea worm completely eradicated before I die,” Carter said at a news conference in 2015. “I’d like for ...