A new study has revealed the clearest-ever picture of the surface chemistry of worm species that provides groundbreaking ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of 'life-like' synthetic materials which are able to move by themselves like worms. Scientists have been investigating a new class of materials ...

In a case report published in the New England Journal of Medicine, doctors explain how they figured out the source of her fiery symptoms—worms burrowing into her brain. By this point, she was alert ...

Pat Hutchings, a marine biologist focused on studying marine worms, visited Bora-Bora in 2015 while on vacation and decided ...

NTDs, a group of 21 debilitating infectious diseases, affect over 1 billion people globally, causing significant morbidity, ...

India had aimed to eliminate Kala-azar, also known as visceral leishmaniasis, a life-threatening parasitic disease, by 2023. However, government data shows that while the number of cases have dropped ...

It marks her left cheek and is spreading towards her nose – a painful hallmark of the skin infection cutaneous leishmaniasis, spread by the sandfly. The face lesion appeared around 46 days ago.