New research shows that parasitic nematodes, responsible for infecting more than a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle of why some cause serious diseases. The findings are ...
Across species from pets to wildlife, chronic diseases like diabetes, cancer, and arthritis are increasingly common — and humans share much of the blame. Across the globe, animals from household pets ...
To achieve food security, the Federal Government has been urged to invest resources in research to find solutions to the ravaging effects of nematodes which reduce crop yields. The Nation learnt that ...
UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate ...
Humans threaten great ape populations by destroying habitats or poaching animals for zoos and meat – or it seems by infecting them with the common cold. "For as long as humans have been domesticating ...
Scientists were able to reanimate a nematode that had laid dormant in Siberian permafrost for approximately 46,000 years, according to a study published Thursday in the journal PLOS Genetics—adding to ...
New research has mapped how infectious diseases spread among wildlife populations in areas where humans and wildlife live in close proximity. The study has identified the animals, specifically wild ...
Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research shows.
Nematologists have long wondered how the the Northern root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne hapla) is able to infect such a wide ...