In what scientists are calling a world first, a 3-inch worm was found alive after doctors performed surgery on the brain of an Australian woman. The worm was pulled from a 64-year-old woman last year, ...

Doctors in Australia found a three-inch live parasitic worm in a woman’s brain during surgery after they spent more than a year trying to find the cause of her distress. By Amanda Holpuch Doctors in ...

Infection by certain wrigglers may reduce inflammation and fight obesity and diabetes. Scientists are working to turn the findings into therapies Amber Dance, Knowable Magazine A computer illustration ...

The experiment was a striking attempt to investigate weight control. For six weeks, a group of mice gorged on lard-enriched mouse chow, then scientists infected the mice with worms. The worms wriggled ...