What might such an insidious-sounding head look like under a microscope? Not very nice, as it happens. One extreme closeup from 2017 reveals the scolex of a Taenia solium tapeworm, and it's just ...

Scientists have identified the stem cells that allow tapeworms to regenerate and found that their location in proximity to the head is essential, according to a new study in eLife. These novel ...

The tapeworm’s head adheres to the intestine wall and the segments of the body, called proglottids, grow as it feeds off the food the host is digesting. Yes, I know, not pleasant to think about ...

But baby pork tapeworms are exactly what doctors found in a 52-year-old man’s brain after he went to a clinic complaining that his migraine headaches had been getting more frequent and severe ...

Scientists have identified the stem cells that allow tapeworms to regenerate and found that their location in proximity to the head is essential, according to a new study in eLife.

Presumed tapeworm eggs have also been reported from pieces of fossilized shark feces dating back to the Carboniferous (358.9–298.9 million years ago) and the Permian (298.9–251.9 million years ...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed in a newly revealed deposition from over a decade ago that a worm ate part of his brain before dying inside his head.

They opened the pills and found the head of a tapeworm. Tapeworms are hard to get rid of. They had the person starve himself for days. Then they set a bowl of hot milk in front of the person.

When a tapeworm’s head was sliced off, the body would continue to grow but failed to generate new segments. A worm with both its head and neck intact, however, can regrow its body.

Once the tapeworm is attached to the human intestinal wall using the hooks and suckers on its head, it grows and matures by absorbing nutrients in the gut, forming hundreds of “proglottids ...

Only when the tapeworm head and neck were left intact could the tapeworm continuously regenerate segments. Next, they tested whether the neck contains special stem cells that allow tapeworms to ...