In this study, researchers from Stowers Institute for Medical Research revealed that this dwarf-sized worm carries an ...

Pumpkin seeds have nutritional value that can improve bowel and prostate health, improve sleep and reduce the risk of cancer, according to Cleveland Clinic. False social media claims, however, are ...

Here’s something to remind you that things could always be worse. A case study this month documents a man whose eye became infested with a parasitic worm. Doctors in India detailed the real-life body ...

The keys to extending life are in the details. Tiny tails at the ends of chromosomes called telomeres erode with age but can be lengthened. Deep inside our cells DNA-based clocks slowly tick away and ...

There’s no good place for parasitic worms to wreak havoc in the human body, but doctors in India say their 80-year-old patient developed a particularly unfortunate case. The man’s worm infection left ...

When a planarian flatworm loses its head, it simply grows another. The head, if left alone, can grow a body to match. In a ...

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

The growth of new segments (body parts) in marine worms is controlled by a special growth zone, in which special stem cells are located. New segments then emerge by the division of these cells. But ...

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