News tagged with parasitic worms
Obstacles no barrier to higher speeds for worms, researchers find
Obstacles in an organism's path can help it to move faster, not slower, researchers from New York University's Applied Math Lab at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences have found through a series ...
Feb 08, 2012 |
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Carter Center gets $40M to eradicate Guinea worm
(AP) -- The Carter Center on Monday announced it received $40 million in donations to help fuel its mission to eradicate Guinea worm disease, a debilitating parasite that once plagued millions of people across the developing ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Availability and use of sanitation reduces by half the likelihood of parasitic worm infections
Access to sanitation facilities, such as latrines, reduces by half the risk of becoming infected by parasitic worms that are transmitted via soil (soil-transmitted helminths) according to a study published in this week's ...
Jan 24, 2012 |
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Global warming changes balance between parasite and host in fish
(PhysOrg.com) -- Parasitic worms that infect fish, and have a devastating effect on fish reproduction, grow four times faster at higher temperatures – providing some of the first evidence that global warming affects ...
Dec 04, 2011 |
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New drug targets revealed from giant parasitic worm genome sequence
Scientists have identified the genetic blueprint of the giant intestinal roundworm, Ascaris suum, revealing potential targets to control the devastating parasitic disease, ascariasis which affects more than one billion people ...
Oct 26, 2011 |
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Worm 'cell death' discovery could lead to new drugs for deadly parasite
Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have for the first time identified a 'programmed cell death' pathway in parasitic worms that could one day lead to new treatments for one of the world's ...
Sep 28, 2011 |
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Parasitic worms: Hidden global health threat
With close to one third of the world's population infected with parasitic worms, MUHC researcher Dr. Theresa Gyorkos is thinking big when it comes to finding a solution to this global public health challenge. As part of an ...
Jun 22, 2011 |
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Not-so-sweet potato from Clemson University, USDA resists pests, disease
Scientists from Clemson University and the USDA Agricultural Research Service have developed a new variety of not-so-sweet potato, called Liberty.
Jun 21, 2011 |
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Worm study yields insights on humans, parasites and iron deficiency
Using a tiny bloodless worm, University of Maryland Associate Professor Iqbal Hamza and his team have discovered a large piece in the puzzle of how humans, and other organisms safely move iron around in the ...
May 26, 2011 |
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Scientists identify most proteins made by parasitic worm
A team led by Thomas B. Nutman, M.D., of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has completed a large-scale analysis of most of the proteins produced ...
May 23, 2011 |
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Mummies tell history of a 'modern' plague
Mummies from along the Nile are revealing how age-old irrigation techniques may have boosted the plague of schistosomiasis, a water-borne parasitic disease that infects an estimated 200 million people today.
May 23, 2011 |
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Worm discovery could help 1 billion people worldwide
Scientists have discovered why some people may be protected from harmful parasitic worms naturally while others cannot in what could lead to new therapies for up to one billion people worldwide.
May 05, 2011 |
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Wild Scottish sheep could help explain differences in immunity
Strong immunity may play a key role in determining long life, but may do so at the expense of reduced fertility, a Princeton University study has concluded.
Oct 28, 2010 |
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How parasites react to the mouse immune system may help to shape their control
How parasites use different life-history strategies to beat our immune systems may also provide insight into the control of diseases, such as elephantiasis and river blindness, which afflict some of the world's poorest communities ...
Oct 19, 2010 |
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Alternative evolution: Why change your own genes when you can borrow someone else's?
It has been a basic principle of evolution for more than a century that plants and animals can adapt genetically in ways that help them better survive and reproduce.
Jul 08, 2010 |
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