The dorsal blood vessel carries blood to the front ... and make the worms live two or three times longer than other worms. Humans have the same ageing genes so it may be possible, eventually ...

In miniature test tubes in biologist Ryan Baugh's lab at Duke, thousands of tiny wriggling worms—each one a fraction the size ...

Doctors in China inadvertently took time-series images of parasitic worms actively invading a ... They did more tests. Blood tests showed elevated eosinophils, which can be a sign of a parasitic ...

Iron deficiency condition anaemia occurs when the body doesn't produce enough healthy red blood ... the worms can enter through any part of the skin. An infection cannot spread between humans.

Could a simple blood pressure pill be the key ... And since these tiny worms share many genetic similarities with humans, the scientists involved believe rilmenidine could have similar effects ...