Tag: Worms

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain One of Earth's most consequential bursts of biodiversity—a 30-million-year period of explosive evolutionary changes spawning innumerable ...

The nematode worm C. elegans will stay away from dangerous bacteria in its environment when exposed to certain bacterial RNAs—and ...

In severe infections, Trichinella worms embed their cysts in a person's muscle tissue, as shown here. (Image credit: CDC/ Dr. ...

Did a worm eat part of the brain of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? The New York Times reported ...

Tiny worms in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) in Ukraine are thriving despite being in an area marked by high ...

Arthrobotrys oligospora sets traps for nematodes as part of a ‘constant evolutionary arms race.’ By Laura Baisas | Published Nov ...

ByDina Fine MaronPublished November 20, 2023• 5 min readAmerica’s town names often venerate famous historical figures and benefactors, or borrow ...

DRESDEN, Germany - At a time when the mighty woolly mammoth roamed the Earth, some 46,000 years ago, a minuscule ...

A new study reveals that microscopic worms, Caenorhabditis elegans, can use electric fields to “jump” onto electrically charged objects, such ...

New research shows how the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a long-used model organism, can use electric fields to ‘jump’ across Petri ...