Six animals that regularly visit or live in suburban backyards across the United States carry diseases serious enough that ...

Doctors suspect the patient accidentally ingested the roundworm's eggs while foraging for edible greens near her home. Hossain et al. / Emerging Infectious Diseases Doctors pulled a live, three-inch ...

Scientists took a step back to a simpler organism -- a common roundworm -- and made a discovery about how the Ras oncogene chooses a signaling pathway and how the consequences of that choice play out ...

Two people in Los Angles County have been diagnosed with raccoon roundworm, also known as Baylisascaris procyonis, according to the local public health department. Both cases were detected in the ...

The raccoon that topples your trashcan and pillages your garden may leave more than just a mess. More likely than not, it also contaminates your yard with parasites—most notably, raccoon roundworms ...

In an analysis of soil samples from twelve parks in Dublin, Ireland, park entrances were more heavily contaminated with infective roundworm eggs than any other tested park location. Jason Keegan of ...

A two-year study in rural Kenya explored the effects of water quality, sanitation, handwashing and nutritional interventions on rates of intestinal worm and Giardia infections. The results indicated ...

A group of developers called [OpenWorm] have mapped the 302 neurons of the Caenorhabditis elegans species of roundworm and created a virtual neural network that can be used to solve all the types of ...

“You can learn a lot from studying a worm,” said Shane Rea of the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies, part of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. To uncover ...