Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...

Delhi High Court blocks patent for nematode-based cancer detection, ruling it a diagnostic process prohibited under India’s ...

Why the Delhi High Court rejected a Japanese firm's application for a patent on cancer detection using worms with an acute ...

Racoon roundworm is a parasite that's commonly found in the feces of racoons. Dogs that ingest racoon roundworm eggs could ...

The raccoon roundworm Baylisascaris procyonis can cause severe diseases in humans, including fatal brain damage. A research team from the ZOWIAC collaborative project at Goethe University Frankfurt ...

It probably sucked to be a Roman soldier guarding Hadrian’s Wall circa the third century CE. W.H. Auden imagined the likely harsh conditions in his poem “Roman Wall Blues,” in which a soldier laments ...

Nematodes discovered in the Great Salt Lake belong to at least one species that is new to science, and possibly two. A University of Utah research team has published a new paper characterizing the ...

Victor Sung, M.D., director of the Division of Movement Disorders in the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Huntington’s Disease Clinic, reacted to the ...

A new treatment that proves to slow the progression of Huntington’s disease (HD) marks a breakthrough for a condition that has long been considered untreatable. Huntington’s is a rare, inherited ...

Histopathological image of multiple myoloma. Smear preparation of bone marrow aspirate stained with May-Grünwald-Giemsa procedure. It doest not represent a histopathologic image but essentially helps ...

A gene therapy injected into patients’ brains slowed progression of the disease by 75 percent, preliminary findings reported. By Dana G. Smith Preliminary results from a small clinical trial to treat ...

Lice checks were a dreaded part of my childhood — I remember anxiously waiting for the nurse to call my name for a checkup, hoping a call home wouldn’t follow (sometimes, I wasn’t so lucky). Head lice ...