US researchers have genetically modified hookworms to produce and secrete specific antibodies. This is a “first step” towards ...

Scientists have genetically engineered hookworms to produce therapeutic molecules inside the body, taking a significant step toward using parasites as living drug factories for chronic diseases.The ...

Learn how engineered hookworms produced toxin-fighting antibodies inside animal hosts, opening the door to a new kind of long ...

Canine hookworms are becoming an increasing threat to pets and people, researchers say, after finding that the parasites have developed widespread drug resistance in both North America and Australia.

The hookworm, found in raw sewage and thought to be eradicated from the United States, has crawled its way into Alabama, where residents are growing increasingly fearful of the potentially ...

Hookworms -- a common parasite in animals -- have become resistant to multiple deworming drugs used to kill them, a new study finds. Veterinarians typically use three types of drugs to kill hookworms, ...

Hookworms are one of the most common parasites plaguing the companion animal world. They use their hooklike mouths to latch onto an animal's intestines, where they feast on tissue fluids and blood.

There's been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection -- a parasite which causes serious disease in tens of millions of people globally. Trials of the ...

There's been a significant breakthrough in the development of a vaccine to prevent hookworm infection—a parasite which causes serious disease in tens of millions of people globally. Trials of the ...