Two species of worms have retained remarkably similar patterns in the way they switch their genes on and off despite having split from a common ancestor 20 million years ago, a new study finds.

Li et al. JAMA Neurology 2025 In her case, the worms appeared to be directly and actively invading her white matter, which was captured by the FLAIR MRIs.

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Brain worms, like the one Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s campaign said he contracted over a decade ago, are real — and more common in certain parts of the world than you might think.

While resurrecting prehistoric worms may sound like the plot of a science-fiction movie, a study says it did happen back in 2015. The accompanying picture, however, has nothing to do with the ...

But the predator worms were a key part of the ecosystem 518 million years ago that scientists didn’t even know existed until they found the fossils. A study describing the findings published ...