Tag: worms

How does our nervous system motivate us to get off the sofa and walk to the fridge, or even to the supermarket, to get food? A research team led by Alexander Gottschalk from Goethe University investigated this using the threadworm Caenorhabditis elegans. The results indicate how foraging behaviour in higher animals might have evolved. Finding

If you think pinkeye is bad, wait until you hear about what happened to Abby Beckley. After dealing with irritation from what she thought was a stray eyelash for about a week, Abby took a closer look at her eye and noticed a translucent worm wiggling around in there, The Washington Post reports. “I pulled that worm out and

Watch the stomach-churning moment surgeons removed 14 wriggling worms from a woman’s organs WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT  The woman, known only as Sunita, was in such pain she could barely stand  She had more than dozen worms measuring 15-20cm each in her bile duct After being sent home with antibiotics, surgeons finally removed the worms  She