Lauren Camp from UC Davis researches roundworms and other parasites. She will present the roles that nematodes play in nature Wednesday at Science Night Live at the Lodi World Of Wonders Science ...

A new online software for CRISPR experiments, called CRISPR-PN2 has been developed for a wide range of experiments in parasitic nematodes. A web-based CRISPR tool, called CRISPR-PN2, has been ...

It's likely that billions of people are unaware they have been infected with parasitic worms. A UC Riverside scientist has won $1.8 million to try and understand why. The National Institutes of Health ...

Threadworms spend up to 10 minutes exploring human skin before finding the best place to burrow in. When a specific dopamine signal is blocked, the worms almost completely stop trying to penetrate the ...

The annotated genome of one of the most destructive nematodes -- Meloidogyne incognita -- the southern root-knot nematode, has just been published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. There are ...

Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding to find the best place for entry before burrowing in. But disrupting a ...

DNA has been known to jump from one species to another in a phenomenon called horizontal transfer. Sometimes, the DNA of parasites will jump into the genomes of their hosts, and evidence of this ...