Surprising study finds people who were under 'mild stress' as children live LONGER
A new study from the University of Michigan has found that roundworms that produced more radical molecules early in development lived longer than worms that produced fewer. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Public-private partnership launched to develop new drugs for roundworm infections
(Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative) Public-private partnership launched to develop new drugs for roundworm infections. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - November 28, 2019 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news

Doctor plucks a 'swimming' parasitic worm from a man's eye
The patient, known only as Mr Yan, 54, from the city of Ningbo, China, was infected with the Thelazia callipaeda roundworm species, which are usually carried by cats and dogs. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 25, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

How One Neuron Regulates Two Separate Behaviors
A major sensory neuron in roundworms distinguishes proprioception from harmful touch by sending out local or whole-cell signals, respectively. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - November 14, 2019 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news

Medical News Today: New three-sexed roundworm species has 'extreme arsenic resistance'
Scientists have found a new ringworm species that has three sexes and is resistant to 500 times the arsenic concentration that would kill a human. (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - October 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Veterinary Source Type: news

Gene that controls egg development in worms could one day be 'included in food additives'
A team at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem analysed the DNA of roundworms. Like humans, the animals contain 20,000 genes. They found the gene ogr-2 controls egg maturation. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - September 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Featured Review: Treating school children with drugs to kill soil - transmitted worms
In 2015 Cochrane published a review on this topic, which has now been updated to include six new trials, additional data from included trials, and addresses comments and criticisms.Global Advocacy organisations claim routine deworming of all school children at regular intervals with deworming drugs in areas where helminth infection is common has substantive health and societal effects beyond the removal of worms.This interview with David Taylor Robinson, Professor of Public Health and Policy, Honorary Consultant in Child Public Health at The University of Liverpool, tells us a little more about this review.What is dewormin...
Source: Cochrane News and Events - September 10, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: Katie Abbotts Source Type: news

Oldest Known Parasites Found in Ancient Puma Feces
Researchers isolate roundworm DNA from animal excrement that is about 17,000 years old. (Source: The Scientist)
Source: The Scientist - August 28, 2019 Category: Science Tags: News & Opinion Source Type: news

Oldest parasite DNA yet recorded found in prehistoric puma poo
Coprolite reveals felines in southern Andes had roundworm 17,000 years ago, long before humans got thereThe compact, gnarled and knobbly specimen looks like a root of ginger. In fact, it ’s 17,000-year-old puma poo, and it contains the oldest parasite DNA yet recorded.The team of researchers behind the discovery say the finding not only confirms that the felines were prowling around the Andes towards the end of the last ice age, but reveals that they were infested with roundworm long before humans and their animals turned up.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 27, 2019 Category: Science Authors: Nicola Davis Tags: Science Fossils Genetics Argentina Biology Americas World news Source Type: news

World Health Organisation ’s New Effort Can Help End Neglected Tropical Diseases
In the Solomon Islands, approximately 40 percent of the population of 550,000 could have active Trachoma. Credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS.By Ifeanyi NsoforABUJA, Aug 19 2019 (IPS) Recently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) launched global consultations for a new Roadmap on how to eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs). The roadmap would help achieve universal health coverage by 2030, address health emergencies and promote healthier populations. This intervention is unprecedented because it could begin to reverse the neglect and inequities that the 17 main NTDs bring. Many NTDs are debilitating and reduce the qual...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 19, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Ifeanyi Nsofor Tags: Development & Aid Global Headlines Health Source Type: news

Worm pheromones protect major crops
(Boyce Thompson Institute) Protecting crops from pests and pathogens without using toxic pesticides has been a longtime goal of farmers. Researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute have found that compounds from an unlikely source - microscopic soil roundworms - could achieve this aim. As described in research published in Journal of Phytopathology, these compounds helped protect major crops from various pathogens, and thus have potential to save billions of dollars and increase agricultural sustainability around the world. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 25, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Genome research shows that the body controls the integrity of heritable genomes
(University of Cologne) Writing in Developmental Cell, scientists at the University of Cologne presented new findings that challenge established concepts of genetic inheritance. They have proven that somatic cells of the roundworm C. elegans influence heredity. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - July 24, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

An AI technology to reveal the characteristics of animal behavior only from the trajectory
(Osaka University) Recording the movements of people and animals has become easy because of small GPS devices and video cameras. However, the reasons for such movements remain difficult to infer. Yamazaki and colleagues have developed a flexible artificial intelligence technology to understand the movement of animals, ranging from roundworms in petri dishes to penguins in the Antarctic Ocean. This method may make it easier to understand animal movements as well as their underlying brain activities. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 16, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Stored in Synapses: How Scientists Completed a Map of the Roundworm ’s Brain
Redrawing neural connections led to new clues about sex differences in scientists ’ favorite model organism. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - July 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Knvul Sheikh Tags: Worms Nerves and Nervous System Brain Biology and Biochemistry Nature (Journal) Einstein, Albert, College of Medicine Scott Emmons your-feed-science Source Type: news

First Complete Wiring Diagram of an Animal's Nervous System
July 3, 2019—(BRONX, NY)—In a study published online today inNature, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine describe the first complete wiring diagram of the nervous system of an animal, the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans, used by scientists worldwide as a model organism. The study includes adults of both sexes and reveals substantial differences between them. (Source: Einstein News)
Source: Einstein News - July 3, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news