A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

Fred Hutch researchers have created a gene-expression map of glial cells of the tiny worm, C. elegans, adding the missing ...

An international team led by EPFL has discovered a powerful anti-aging pathway in roundworms, revealing how boosting the cell ...

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The animal that kills the most humans each year isn’t massive or visibly dangerous. In fact, it’s small, nearly silent, and ...

Researchers want the parasite to be added to the diseases that public health officials are required to report. Researchers ...

Disease-transmitting mosquitoes are becoming resistant to insecticides, which threatens the global fight against malaria, ...

A new breakdown of earthworm DNA could help us better understand how evolution works, and it could prove Darwin completely ...

For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

Study finds that the pace of evolution in organisms differs depending on the type of cells involved. A new study finds that ...

Eating raw fish can come with the risk of ingesting sushi worms. Here's what those scary critters actually are, and how to ...