The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...

Coughing: Not all dogs will develop this symptom, but when the worms migrate through the body, they can damage the lungs and ...

Knowable Magazine reports that worm-inspired treatments show promise for metabolic diseases by reducing inflammation and ...

Flesh-eating maggots are inching toward the southwestern border of the US. The defense plan? Breed millions of sterilized ...

Screwworm parasites primarily infect livestock, but human cases have risen in Central America after the pests escaped containment ...

How Worm-Inspired Treatments Are Inching Their Way Toward the Clinic Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes.

But the little worm also shares some surprising affinities with us. Its DNA holds more than 19,000 genes — only a few hundred shy of the lofty human genome. Many of those genes are “homologs ...

The development of maternal egg cells is pivotal for survival – but also precarious. During meiosis, the DNA-containing chromosomes can easily be broken or lost, causing infertility, miscarriage or ...

Researchers have discovered RNA mechanisms that may lead to more effective, durable and targeted treatments for conditions like high cholesterol, liver diseases and cancers.