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Apr. 21, 2022 — New research reveals the scale of parasitic worm infections in Britain from the Prehistoric to the early Victorian ...
Apr. 6, 2021 — Researchers have found that light modulates digestive system function in sea urchin larvae, even in the absence of food stimuli. Opsin cells, which are involved in light-dependent systems, mediated ...
Sep. 11, 2023 — A herring in the North Sea, a crab in the Wadden Sea or an anemone fish on a coral reef, ... biologists like to think in terms of individual species that all have their own place within food webs in ...
May 3, 2021 — In the early 19th century in North America, parasitic infections were quite common in urban areas due in part to population growth and urbanization. Prior research has found that poor sanitation, ...
Nov. 24, 2021 — Bacteria from the digestive system seem to have the potential to cause damage to pancreatic cells, increasing the risk of malignant tumors. Now for the first time, live bacteria from cystic ...
Oct. 30, 2021 — Prior infections appear to shield enteric neurons, preventing these key components of the body's 'second brain' from dying off when future pathogens ...
Oct. 25, 2022 — Acoustic communication is not only widespread in land vertebrates like birds and mammals, but also in reptiles, amphibians, and fishes. Many of them are usually considered mute, but in fact show ...
Sep. 22, 2021 — A species of roundworm that is widely used in biological research can sense and respond to sound, despite having no ear-like ...
June 16, 2022 — Researchers developed a toolkit for investigating the molecular mechanisms governing the parasitic nature of the wasp species Asobara japonica. They first used DNA and RNA-sequencing-based techniques ...
May 17, 2021 — Whether it's plankton exposed to parasites or people exposed to pathogens, a host's initial immune response plays an integral role in determining whether infection occurs and to what degree ...
