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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

— NEJM (@NEJM) March 28, 2019 No, it is not normal to have all those white spots in your head. Each white spot is a cyst, created by the larvae of Taenia solium, otherwise known as the pork ...

After months of a mysterious illness, NHL prospect Carson Meyer discovered a 25-inch tapeworm coming out of his body. Meyer had spent nearly a year feeling constantly fatigued and lacking an ...