Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as high as a basketball hoop. Their device, a silicone rod with a carbon-fiber spine, can ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis -- a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm -- have been revealed.

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis - a disease caused by parasitic worms and ...

Inspired by the movements of a tiny parasitic worm, Georgia Tech engineers have created a 5-inch soft robot that can jump as ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

Squeezed from the skin of a stonefish, a recently discovered toxin shows enormous promise, according to researchers in Far ...

Every few weeks, Kyla receives a vial of fluid through the post containing dozens of microscopic hookworm and whipworm larvae – intestinal parasitic worms. Using a pipette, she deposits the ...

NANJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- An international research team has unearthed a 160-million-year-old fossil in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region that provides insights into the evolution of ...

New insights into the mechanisms that cause more severe cases of schistosomiasis—a disease caused by parasitic worms and second only to malaria in terms of potential harm—have been revealed by ...

Targeting a newly discovered vulnerability in the signals that cyst nematodes use to infect plant roots could be a powerful ...