This study is a truly insightful thing. If you were looking for a generic manager of a range of conditions including aging, your instant answer probably wouldn’t be hookworms. It takes a fairly ...

Parasitic helminths are a major cause of chronic human disease, affecting more than 3 billion people worldwide. Host protection against most parasitic helminths relies upon Type 2 cytokine production, ...

The eradication of infectious diseases means that diseases like smallpox that are passed from person to person have been reduced to zero worldwide. By contrast, the elimination of an infectious ...

This story definitely has a yuck factor. It's about hookworms. When hookworm eggs land on moist, warm ground, via human feces, they develop into larvae, raise their tiny selves upward, and wave back ...