Health
Q&A: Expert explains recent case of woman with a brain worm and how to avoid infection
Has the news about an Australian woman with a living, wriggling roundworm in her brain got you spooked?
Sep 1, 2023
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Immunology
If being too clean makes us sick, why isn't getting dirty the solution?
Today rates of allergic, autoimmune and other inflammatory diseases are rising dramatically in Western societies. If that weren't bad enough, we are beginning to understand that many psychiatric disorders, including depression, ...
Jan 13, 2016
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Neuroscience
Scientists learn how young brains form lifelong memories by studying worms' food choices
Members of neuroscientist Cori Bargmann's lab spend quite a bit of their time watching worms move around. These tiny creatures, Caenorhabditis elegans, feed on soil bacteria, and their very lives depend on their ability to ...
Feb 11, 2016
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Neuroscience
Molecular mechanism of long-term memory discovered
Researchers at the University of Basel have discovered a molecular mechanism that plays a central role in intact long-term memory. This mechanism is also involved in physiological memory loss in old age.
Nov 30, 2020
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Medical research
White blood cell previously linked to infection may have another role
A new link between meal times and daily changes in the immune system has been identified by UC San Francisco researchers, and has led them to question assumptions about the roles of specific immune cells in infection and ...
Sep 16, 2013
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Worm therapy for hay fever? More research is needed
Purposely infecting patients with hookworms or whipworms to treat hay fever and other immune-related diseases has been experimented with since the 1970s. A new review by The Cochrane Library concludes that current evidence ...
Apr 18, 2012
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Neuroscience
Biologists identify signals that drive distinct behavior in microscopic nematode worms
Dr. Kevin Collins carefully places a petri dish with what looks like a blotch of yellowish slime under a microscope. Magnified, the slime comes alive as hundreds of translucent worms, known as Caenorhabditis elegans, slither ...
Jan 19, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
CRISPR-edited C. elegans identifies vulnerabilities in cancer
A one-millimeter worm, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, is an animal model widely used in biomedical research by hundreds of laboratories around the world. Surprisingly, it has approximately the same number of genes that ...
Oct 24, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Study shows that African eye worm threatens elimination of river blindness
Efforts to eliminate river blindness, a debilitating disease affecting millions in Africa, will be hampered by another parasitic infection known as Loiasis, or 'African eye worm,' according to a study published in Clinical ...
Nov 20, 2019
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Immunology
Intestinal worms boost immune system in a surprising way
In order to fight invading pathogens, the immune system uses "outposts" throughout the body, called lymph nodes. These are small, centimeter-long organs that filter fluids, get rid of waste materials, and trap pathogens, ...
May 5, 2016
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