Nematodes discovered in the Great Salt Lake belong to at least one species that is new to science, and possibly two. A ...

Scientists say they're not sure exactly how the newly discovered species found its way into the enormous US lake.

Did you know that four out of every five animals are nematodes? But what is a nematode? This animal predates the dinosaurs ...

Utah researchers say that at least one of the tiny roundworm species recently found living in the Great Salt Lake is a ...

Northern root knot nematode worms (colored) attacking bean roots. Root knot nematodes are major agricultural pests attacking a wide variety of plants including major crops. A new study of the ...

When two cells "talk" to each other, they often do so through tiny channels called electrical synapses. Unlike chemical ...

Russian researchers have coaxed microscopic animals back to life after they spent roughly 24,000 years locked in Siberian ice ...

By blocking a molecule that pushes the immune system into overdrive, a vaccine protects mice from life-threatening ...

They're actually pretty adorable, and they eat mice. But you may unwittingly be inviting them to hang out in, and tear up, ...

The result was IgE-K: a conjugate vaccine that teaches the immune system to recognize and neutralize IgE. When injected into ...

Russian scientists successfully revived 24,000-year-old micro-organisms, bdelloid rotifers, from Siberian permafrost, ...