Anna Phillips holds a colorized electron microscope image of a species of tapeworm taken from a cow-nosed ray (“Rhinoptera bonasus”), a marine animal. Produced by Kiersten Jensen at the University of ...

Get close with a tapeworm, investigate tomato mold and see more of the world under the microscope. This close-up view of a human skin cell won first place in the annual Nikon Small World ...

The parents of an 8-year-old girl suffering from severe headaches and epileptic seizures for months were both relieved and horrified when doctors told them her diagnosis: 100 tapeworm eggs were inside ...

Janine Caira’s lifelong passion began on a beach in Baja California. She was in her 20s, studying for her parasitology PhD at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, when a friend who worked as a guard ...