The human body has good reason for its tighter controls. Cells that multiply unchecked are the roots of cancer. “Our hope is to uncover the basic rules that guide stem cells to become specific tissues ...

Tiny flatworms which usually live in ponds, rivers and streams could replace lab rats in the development of treatments for schizophrenia, drug addiction and other mental health disorders, after ...

Discovered: We may come microscopic worms after all; men and women tell stories differently; having fewer children tied to living longer; we feel in 3D. Men and women tell stories differently. You can ...

The microscopic flatworm (Stenostomum brevipharyngium) is one of nature's weirder creatures. Chop off its head, and it'll ...

Nematodes have been spotted forming writhing towers of tiny worms in the wild for the first time, according to a report in the journal Current Biology. The bizarre behavior had previously only been ...

Scientists at the FMI and the University of California-Santa Cruz have found that similar molecular machineries control daily ...

PARIS (Reuters) -French authorities have detected for the first time a microscopic worm that can ravage pine trees, extending the presence of the pathogen in Europe after it spread in Portugal and ...

Scientists have found proof that a parasite still troubling oysters today was already up to its old tricks nearly half a ...

UC Davis researchers Gant Luxton, Daniel Starr and Xiangyi Ding have used tiny fluorescent particles to study what is going on inside the cells of Caenorhabditis worms. They found that the cells are ...

Heidi Klum just told the world that everyone has tiny worms living in their gut, and she’s spending months doing a parasite cleanse to get rid of them. The supermodel’s revelation has social media ...

By studying how worms use electric charge to jump onto flies, scientists are showing even physical strategies are embedded in ...