The economic impact of Internet worm attacks is staggering, with analysts reporting that the Bagle, Netsky and Mydoom worms combined caused several billion dollars in damage from lost productivity, ...

Increasing numbers of students are asking to opt out of the science class ritual of dissecting frogs or fetal pigs, branding the practice cruel and insisting that they can learn as much from computer ...

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As a college undergraduate, I fell in love with parasitic worms. I was studying evolutionary biology, and I got caught up in the idea of organisms that made their world out of other organisms. I was ...

If your research involves Caenorhabditis elegans and you've ever dreaded the thought of ploughing through a never-ending pile of papers to understand that unfamiliar anatomical phenotype in your model ...

Earthworms experience constant chemical interactions with bacteria, fungi, plants and small invertebrates across soil ecosystems. Even within their tissues, earthworms harbor symbiotic microbes and ...

A new microfluidic method preserves worm anatomy to link lipid signals with body structure using mass spectrometry imaging. Understanding how fat molecules are distributed and function in living ...