Nuns at an Italian convent were forced to write their vows in their own blood, self-flagellate every night, and eat spoiled food, a former member of the order is claiming. “We pierced our skin with ...

This patient exhibits a pruritic, erythematous flagellate eruption. Flagellate refers to the linear or curved whip-like appearance of the rash. As can be seen particularly in Figure 1, the curved ...

Euglena gracille, a simple, one-celled organism--used in the laboratory to measure the level of vitamin B-12 in the blood of anemic patients--is now being employed in studies to determine the effect ...

A 48-year-old white man presented with a 4-week history of itchy lesions on the skin of his upper back and shoulders. The patient’s medical history included ulcerative colitis and a seizure disorder.

Abstract A 39-year-old woman with a long-standing vascular malformation of the posterior tongue underwent intralesional sclerotherapy with a single dose of bleomycin. Within 1 week after treatment, ...

Scientists have sequenced the genome of a weird creature that exists as an amoeba until the food runs out, then turns into a two-tailed swimmer to find new hunting grounds. The organism, Naegleria, is ...

In the long evolutionary road from bacteria to humans, a major milestone occurred some 1.5 billion years ago when microbes started building closets for all their stuff, storing DNA inside a nucleus, ...

The morphology is defined by the positions of the flagellum emergence point and the flagellar pocket (FP; shown in orange), nucleus (shown in blue) and kinetoplast DNA (mitochondrial kDNA; shown in ...

COVID-19 restrictions in the past years have prevented crowds and devotees from participating in the ritual, a practice discouraged by the Catholic Church in the Philippines.

In 2016, a collaborative group of research and education specialists received funding from the National Science Foundation for the project 'Building a Comprehensive Evolutionary History of Flagellate ...

"THE story of the evolution of the plant regarded as expressed in simplest terms as an autotrophic flagellate of the plankton-phase from nothing at all but ionized sea-water "is the subject of Mr.