A sneaky worm avoids detection by silencing nerves that would normally trigger pain or itching. The finding could inspire new painkillers and tools to protect against infection.

Scientists have discovered a parasite that can sneak into your skin without you feeling a thing. The worm, Schistosoma ...

New research, published in The Journal of Immunology, discovered that a parasitic worm suppresses neurons in the skin to ...

Helminths regulate inflammatory disease. The potent anti-inflammatory and direct wound-healing pathways that are induced by helminths might greatly affect the overall immune function.

Other helminths adopt different ploys; for example, SEAs from S. mansoni do not directly induce T Reg cells, but instead act on DCs to promote their induction of FOXP3-expressing CD4 + T cells 131.

In a recent interview, the "Project Runway" star said she's starting a parasite cleanse, and recommended that everyone should ...

Helminths are most common in areas that have moist, warm climates and poor sanitation. When worms are in someone's intestines, that person passes eggs through their stool. As the feces come into ...

Helminths are parasitic worms that cause a wide variety of infectious diseases, some of which involve the musculoskeletal system. Helminths may be classified into nematodes or roundworms ...

Helminths calm the immune system, then, but not only those mechanisms used by the immune system in allergic responses. They calm entirely different mechanisms involved in the other chronic ...

Stephen R. Goldberg, Charles R. Bursey, Hay Cheam, Gastrointestinal Helminths of Four Gekkonid Lizards, Gehyra mutilata, Gehyra oceanica, Hemidactylus frenatus and Lepidodactylus lugubris from the ...

The distribution of 9 of the 15 species of helminths was extended to Kansas, Nebraska, or Oklahoma with 10 new host records. The incidence of infection with helminths in bats of different sexes and ...

In the middle of 2020, Alex Loukas deliberately infected himself with intestinal worms. The procedure was pretty straightforward: he used a Band-Aid to press a few larvae of the New World hookworm ...