Scientists find diet can influence inherited traits without changing DNA, highlighting long-term biological effects.

Modern analytical tools are no less than a time machine. From their 21st-century labs, researchers can peer into the everyday ...

Federal health officials reported on Monday that cases of a flesh-eating parasitic infection continue to be detected near the ...

Up-close tick encounters are nothing new to Peter Krause. As a tick-borne disease researcher, he's conducted fieldwork where ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) said a New World screwworm case was confirmed in the Mexican state of Nuevo León, ...

The New World Screwworm, according to Dr. Todd Ellerin, is a fly larva that can get into wounds of cattle and sometimes ...

A recent study by researchers at the UW reveals a deadly parasite in local coyotes that transfers to dogs and humans.

"It's often infected with a parasite, which can be transmitted to humans. Untreated, it can lead to heart failure, damage to ...

The largest of the three wildfires burning in northeastern Minnesota was likely caused by people. In an update Wednesday, the U.S. Forest Service’s Eastern Area Incident Management Team said the ...

Every multicellular organism, from tiny worms to humans, elephants and whales, needs a way for their cells to work together. Cells have a variety of protein receptors on their surfaces that connect ...

And Yet It Moves: Designing microrobots that combine complex motion with practical size has long forced a tradeoff: devices tend to be either small and rigid or large and flexible. Researchers at ...

A SLIMY crew of worms is about to be blasted into space just days after the historic Artemis II voyage. Brit scientists are sending the microscopic space travellers to the ISS on a very important ...