LONDON -- U.S. scientists have extended the life span of roundworms by tinkering with their genetic makeup in a discovery that could one day help humans to live longer. Roundworms normally die at ...

One of these days, the ability of our cells and tissues to regenerate and repair themselves will come to a stop. Researchers hoping to better understand the processes that regulate aging are studying ...

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Pudgy roundworms storing a particular type of fat live longer than their more svelte counterparts, according to a study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. This fatty buildup ...

A North Korean defector was shot crossing the country's border with South Korea and his doctors discovered many, many parasites inside him. But if he hadn't been shot, it's possible one particular ...

Researchers have found a new class of photoreceptor protein known as LITE-1 in invertebrates that could be up to 50 times more sensitive than rhodopsin is in the human eye. Reporting in the journal ...

Joint research led by Yu Toyoshima and Yuichi Iino of the University of Tokyo has demonstrated individual differences in, and successfully extracted commonalities from, the whole-brain activity of ...

This is the stomach-churning moment surgeons discovered 14 live worms wriggling inside a woman’s internal organs. The 38-year-old woman, identified only as Sunita, visited the hospital after suffering ...

Researchers have discovered the world’s first case of a new human parasitic infection, pulling a live roundworm picked up from a carpet python from the brain of an Australian woman. They say the case ...

Worm-inspired biotech Holoclara has had a busy year. After announcing a $16 million series A round in June, the Pasadena, California, company has now dosed the first patient in a phase 1 trial of its ...

Pudgy roundworms storing a particular type of fat live longer than their more svelte counterparts, according to a new study. Pudgy roundworms storing a particular type of fat live longer than their ...