The throat of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans might seem like an odd place for exploring the complexity of life's mechanisms, until one realizes how much information has been collected on these ...

Give roundworms some weed and they’ll get the munchies, study finds Work could further our understanding of endocannabinoid system, help drug development.

One of the most in-depth catalogs of an animal’s brain-body connections ever compiled ties neural activity to roundworm behavior. Skip to main content. Scientific American. August 21, 2023.

When a 64-year-old Australian woman was sent to hospital for brain surgery, neurosurgeon Dr. Hari Priya Bandi was not expecting to pull out a live 8-centimeter (3-inch) long parasitic roundworm ...

A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a live, three inch-long worm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman in June 2022. The roundworm Ophidascaris robertsi is native to Australia and its larvae were ...