In a groundbreaking new study, researchers modified a human hookworm and got it to manufacture and secrete functional human ...

Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical regions around the ...

Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical regions around the ...

CRISPR-edited hookworms secrete neutralizing antibodies into their host's bloodstream, paving the way for genetically ...

Parasitic hookworm therapy had no significant benefit on MRI in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), the phase II WIRMS trial showed. However, about half of hookworm-treated participants and a ...

Hookworm infection is the result of a parasitic roundworm that lives in the small intestine of birds or mammals. These are blood-feeding worms cause one of the most neglected tropical disease called ...

A team of British scientists investigating whether a tiny tropical hookworm could provide a cure for asthma and hay fever have committed the ultimate act of bravery by infecting themselves with the ...

Treatment with hookworm larvae was well tolerated in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), and although the primary outcome was not met there was some evidence of a beneficial therapeutic effect in ...

This is a compelling commercial for shoes. A Canadian couple Katie Stephens, 22, and Eddie Zytner, 25, vacationing in the Dominican Republic showed why not wearing shoes made them suffer "de feet'. As ...

LOWNDES COUNTY, AL JULY 10, 2017: Aaron Thigpen, 29, observes a site where raw sewage is dumped through a PVC pipe only a few yards away from a home. Thigpen, a community activist in nearby Fort ...

Hookworm infections in humans are caused by two important species of nematode parasites (a type of a roundworm), Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus. A much larger group of hookworms that ...

Panel A shows a scanning electron micrograph of Necator americanus. The buccal capsule is characterized by cutting plates, which allow the adult parasite to feed on intestinal mucosa, submucosa, and ...