A new Yale study of roundworms, a species with the unique ability to regenerate, reveals that disruptions in the body's ...

Working with researchers in China, biologists at UC San Diego have discovered how a Chinese drug effective in killing parasitic roundworms works. Their discovery of the drug's biological mechanism ...

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Roundworms aren't much fun for dogs, but they have their uses. For one thing, their ability to smell danger may have a surprising connection to preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease in humans.

The fertility of roundworms may have implications for everything from captive pandas to infertile couples struggling to conceive, researchers report. The sexual behavior of the roundworm C. elegans is ...

One of these days, the ability of our cells and tissues to regenerate and repair themselves will come to a stop. Researchers hoping to better understand the processes that regulate aging are studying ...

Bisphenol A does a real number on the genes responsible for successful reproduction in a 1-millimeter-long soil-dwelling roundworm. And that suggests that this chemical — a building block of certain ...

Raccoons get roundworms; Baylisascaris procyonis is a pretty common offender. And the eggs from those annoying intestinal parasites can be passed through feces to other animals, including humans. Kids ...

The banana variety Yangambi km5 produces toxic substances that kill the nematode Radopholus similis, a roundworm that infects the root tissue of banana plants -- to the frustration of farmers ...

During their lifetime, many people will encounter highly traumatic events, however only a fraction goes on to develop symptoms that persist for over month, and possibly even years—post-traumatic ...