New research involving mice and worms points to the possibility that a chemical compound found in some plastics may cause ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown that the Cryptosporidium parasite exports a protein into infected ...

In mice with human Merkel cell carcinoma, pyrvinium pamoate significantly reduced tumor growth, potentially offering a new ...

Its oral median lethal dose (LD50) of 334 micrograms per kilogram in mice is orders of magnitude more toxic than even potassium cyanide at 8,500 micrograms per kilogram. Ingesting these worms can ...

"In order to be able to study how nutrition affects parasite worm infection, we have been using a mouse model, Trichuris muris, closely related to the human whipworm Trichuris trichiura and seeing ...

Researchers have uncovered new insights into the mechanisms behind severe schistosomiasis, focusing on how immune responses triggered by the parasite's eggs contribute to inflammation. The findings ...

The study -- which took place in mice and was published in PLOS Pathogens ... coming in contact with water infested with parasitic worm larvae. While several species of blood fluke worms can ...

These enhancers also can shut off gene activity as healing is completed. These regulatory elements have been found in fruit flies, worms, and mice as well as the zebrafish. “We probably have them too, ...