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

While roundworm infestations usually don’t pose a significant health risk for your cat, they can lead to complications for ...

A rare parasitic infection known as raccoon roundworm has been confirmed in Los Angeles. The infection, Baylisascaris procyonis, can affect the brain, spinal cord and eyes.

While politicians pose in front of barns, tractors and fields for campaign ads, meaningful agricultural security policy sits ...

Roundworm infection, or toxocariasis, is a zoonotic disease — a disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans. Dogs and cats are the definitive hosts for the roundworm species that ...

A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a wriggling 3-inch roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman last year—which was quite the surprise to the woman's team of doctors and infectious disease ...

In a world first, doctors have extracted a living roundworm usually found in carpet pythons from a patient's brain. They believe the infection occurred after the patient ate contaminated native ...

A tiny roundworm was revived after it was frozen in Siberian permafrost 46,000 years ago, when Neanderthals still walked the Earth. The worm, a previously unknown species of nematode, ...

A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a live, three inch-long worm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman in June 2022. The roundworm Ophidascaris robertsi is native to Australia and its larvae were ...

Rare ‘raccoon roundworm’ brain-infecting parasite found in two LA residents. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced that two human cases of Baylisascaris procyonis – a ...

A species of roundworm found in Siberian permafrost and recently revived by scientists in a lab, has potentially survived over 46,000 years in suspended animation. The worm was in a dormant state ...