In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert, ...

Can parasites eat your brain? Hookworms in the belly can drink human blood. And some species of amoeba can swim up into the ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney.

But a dead worm in the brain stands a place apart from all of ... foodborne trematodiases; human African trypanosomiasis; leishmaniasis; leprosy; lymphatic filariasis; mycetoma ...

Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount ...

The human brain, the nervous system of a worm, and a computer chip have striking similarities, scientists from the U.S., the U.K., and Germany have discovered. The human brain, the nervous system ...

Researchers studied samples of human brains and found high levels of microplastics, but it's unclear how they slip past the ...

Parasites can live within their host (or hosts) for short or extended periods — in some cases many years — going largely unnoticed. For instance, one man lived with a tapeworm in his brain for ...

weathered plastic shards” in brain tissue, including blood vessel walls and immune cells, in human bodies donated to research. Experts hope their imagining approach will continue to be used to ...