A new study looks at how a natural plant extract of a particular kind of wormwood, Artemisia scoparia, could lead to longer lifespans, including potentially for humans. The key lies in enhanced ...

Not all intestinal parasites are bad. New research shows that products from some gut-dwelling worms can ease inflammation and treat asthma — at least in mice. Julia Esser-von Bieren at the Helmholtz ...

A root extract of the Fallopia multiflora, or Chinese knotweed, has special properties: it enables the nematode C. elegans to live longer and protects it from oxidative stress, according to a new ...

In the list of professions that children dream of, becoming a worm farmer usually isn’t one of them. It wasn’t either for Connor Freimuth of Chilton, yet that’s exactly where he landed. Freimuth, ...

In a first-ever case worldwide, doctors in Canberra, Australia, extracted a wriggling worm usually found in carpet pythons from the brain of a woman who suffered more than a year from a host of ...

A research team in the Louisiana State University Department of Biological Sciences led by Assistant Professor Adam Bohnert has published a landmark study linking greater metabolic health—achieved ...