In a crowded room, we naturally move slower than in an empty space. Surprisingly, worms can show the exact opposite behavior: In an environment with randomly scattered obstacles, they tend to move ...

The findings not only reveal how worms navigate crowded environments like soil but also suggest strategies for bio-entities in the crowded environment of the human body and robots in complex ...

Explore the potential of nitisinone as a mosquito killer. A new drug shows promise in the fight against malaria-carrying ...

Flatworms and earthworms can regrow large parts of their body. Roundworms may hold the secret to counteracting ...

Nitisinone, a drug for genetic disorders, could help control malaria by making human blood toxic to mosquitoes. Anopheles ...

Researchers have identified the human enzyme APEH as a crucial activator of antimalarial prodrugs, paving the way for more ...

Potential applications go beyond worms. The findings not only reveal how worms navigate crowded environments like soil but also suggest strategies for bio-entities in the crowded environment of the ...

Nitisinone, a drug for rare diseases, kills mosquitoes when present in human blood and may become a new tool to fight malaria ...

"One way to stop the spread of diseases transmitted by insects is to make the blood of animals and humans toxic," according ...

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

Dog and cat roundworms have been linked to loss of vision, difficulty breathing, asthma, epilepsy and cognitive decline in ...