Researchers found that roundworms gobble down high-calorie foods when exposed to a compound that acts on the same brain receptor as THC. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Scientists recently revived microscopic creatures frozen for 46,000 years in the Siberian permafrost. The ancient nematodes, better known as roundworms, are able to shut their bodies down in ...

Schmidtea mediterranea, a freshwater flatworm (or planarian), has adult pluripotent stem cells spread all throughout its ...

And other questions about parasites. By Dana G. Smith and Dani Blum Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s disclosure that a doctor apparently found a dead worm in his brain has sparked questions about what brain ...

The dreaded rat lungworm—a parasite with a penchant for rats and slugs that occasionally finds itself rambling and writhing in human brains—has firmly established itself in the Southeast US and will ...

Scientists have found over a dozen parasitic worms in the eyes of a black bear, renewing fears that humans could face an emerging danger from the tiny worms that can cause blindness. The black bear ...