Ebola is one of the nasty viruses that can hide in the body even after a patient recovers and tests negative. It can reemerge ...

Parasites have roamed the Earth for a long time. They were here before the dinosaurs: The oldest fossils are more than 500 ...

When a planarian flatworm loses its head, it simply grows another. The head, if left alone, can grow a body to match. In a ...

Parasites are dangerous creatures that survive off their hosts. Here are 12 common parasites that feed on the human body.

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Stem cells, which drive regeneration, require a microenvironment in tissue called a niche, but not so much in this ...

The paper, recently published in the journal PNAS, found that roundworms can use static electricity to leap up to 25 times ...

Thousands of at-risk manta and devil rays become accidental bycatch in tuna fishing nets every year. A simple sorting grid could help save them.