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Aug. 27, 2020 —Although helminth infections -- including tapeworms and roundworms -- are among the world's top neglected diseases, they are no longer endemic in Europe. However, researchers report that these ...
Apr. 21, 2022 —New research reveals the scale of parasitic worm infections in Britain from the Prehistoric to the early Victorian ...
Apr. 6, 2021 —Researchers have found that light modulates digestive system function in sea urchin larvae, even in the absence of food stimuli. Opsin cells, which are involved in light-dependent systems, mediated ...
May 3, 2021 —In the early 19th century in North America, parasitic infections were quite common in urban areas due in part to population growth and urbanization. Prior research has found that poor sanitation, ...
Nov. 24, 2021 —Bacteria from the digestive system seem to have the potential to cause damage to pancreatic cells, increasing the risk of malignant tumors. Now for the first time, live bacteria from cystic ...
Oct. 30, 2021 —Prior infections appear to shield enteric neurons, preventing these key components of the body's 'second brain' from dying off when future pathogens ...
Oct. 25, 2022 —Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. Many of them are usually considered mute, but in fact show ...
Sep. 22, 2021 —A species of roundworm that is widely used in biological research can sense and respond to sound, despite having no ear-like ...
Oct. 1, 2020 —A new, accurate screening tool for clinical skin products has been developed which uses flatworms rather than ...
June 16, 2022 —Researchers developed a toolkit for investigating the molecular mechanisms governing the parasitic nature of the wasp species Asobara japonica. They first used DNA and RNA-sequencing-based techniques ...
