Animals integrate physiological and environmental signals to modulate their food uptake. The nematode C. elegans, whose food uptake consists of pumping bacteria from the environment into the gut, ...

The C. elegans roundworm sees by eating, sucking in big gulps of bacteria to learn about its surrounding environment. As researchers watched, they noticed an odd pattern marked by “bursts” of eating.

Imagine going to the mirror and finding a small translucent worm crawling across the surface of your eye. The first of many. That’s what happened to an avid 26-year-old outdoorswoman from Oregon, who ...

According to Jack Chambers, proprietor of the Sonoma Valley Worm Farm and a former Delta Air Lines pilot, when he got in the cockpit of a 747, "the other guys would have second homes and boats and be ...

Surgeons had to remove bundles of live worms from the body of a 4-year-old boy after his small bowel became infested with parasites. The boy, from the rural area of Menchum Division, northwest ...