We were thrilled to find a microscopic worm ... microscope was invaluable for this as well, as we could minimize the amount of time that creatures were out of their natural environment and under ...

Ms Badolé suffers from loiasis, a chronic filarial disease caused by the Loa loa parasite, also known as the African eye worm ...

Though Demodex mites are often seen as unwelcome guests, they play an essential role in the skin’s ecosystem. By maintaining ...

The neurons in the octopus's arms are concentrated along an axial nerve cord that undulates down the length of each arm, with nodes centered around each of the suckers. It seems complex and focused, ...

"We think it's a feature that specifically evolved in soft-bodied cephalopods with suckers to carry out these worm-like movements ... sections of the arms under a microscope, but the samples ...

The suckers are also packed with sensory receptors that allow the octopus to taste and smell things that they touch—like combining a hand with a tongue and a nose. The researchers believe the ...

Jewel Plummer Cobb was a cancer researcher who investigated how hormones, ultraviolet light and chemotherapeutic drugs can ...

The shells of L. fasciculata, studied under a scanning electron microscope, show characteristic perforations. These marks testify to the presence of a specialized predator, likely a mollusk or worm, ...

Southwest United Graduate School, Yunnan Key Laboratory of Cell Metabolism and Diseases, State Key Laboratory of Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan Center for Life Sciences, ...