The nematode worm C. elegans will stay away from dangerous ... the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa that causes infections in ...

The marine-parasite researcher, Chelsea Wood, studied changes in parasitic nematode worms ... Another parasitic worm, Clavinema mariae, which doesn't cause illness in humans, increased its ...

Scientists at the Buck Institute have found that treating with lithium increases the lifespan of nematode worms by 46 per cent. This observation has raised the question whether humans taking the ...

Nematodes (worms) in the Chernobyl area show no sign ... These levels far exceed the 1 millisievert level that humans could tolerate safely. “These worms live everywhere, and they live quickly ...

Skin-penetrating nematodes are excreted in the feces ... to carbon dioxide play an important role in how these parasites interact with human hosts as they pass through the different stages of ...

Parasitic worms are difficult to kill with current therapies, but their commensal bacteria might be their Achilles’ heel.

When tapeworms and roundworms set up camp in a body ... Ironically, thanks to improvements in hygiene and sanitation, the risk of humans contracting these parasites is much lower and our bodies are no ...

Globally, over 600 million people are infected with the skin-penetrating threadworm, Strongyloides stercoralis, mostly in tropical and subtropical regions with poor sanitation infrastructure.

People love the taste of sugar beets' primary byproduct: white sugar. Soilborne cyst nematodes—parasitic, microscopic ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...