Raccoons may look harmless wandering city streets or forests, but they carry a hidden threat: a parasitic roundworm that can infect humans and wildlife. Since the animals first arrived in Europe from ...

Molecular biologist Cynthia Kenyon speaks about her seminal discovery and excitement for the future of longevity research ...

Opening a can of worms may prove the answer to a salmon fishery researcher's question, especially dead anisakid, roundworms found in old cans of wild Alaska salmon. Results of the ...

Learn how heartworm disease became widespread in dogs, reflecting an evolutionary history that spans back to ancient times.

Delhi High Court blocks patent for nematode-based cancer detection, ruling it a diagnostic process prohibited under India’s ...

Living in a polluted environment? Health experts recommend deworming twice yearly to prevent anaemia, malnutrition, and organ ...

Why the Delhi High Court rejected a Japanese firm's application for a patent on cancer detection using worms with an acute ...

My vet said that it looked like roundworms but that using the heartworm preventative that I have should have prevented that.

Do you know what the universal blood type is? Apparently, only one in 10 Americans do. (It’s O-negative, by the way.) How ...

A dog in the San Fernando Valley was found to have Baylisascaris, or raccoon roundworm, eggs in its system during a routine ...

Racoon roundworm is a parasite that's commonly found in the feces of racoons. Dogs that ingest racoon roundworm eggs could ...

A new study, which also found evidence of the high-risk strain in 45,000-year-old remains, suggests HPV has evolved alongside ...