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How your skin tone could affect your meds

Perspective paper offers insights into impact of skin pigmentation on drug efficacy and safety

By Iqbal Pittalwala | October 10, 2024 | Science / Technology, Health
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Solving antibiotic and pesticide resistance with infectious worms

To study how parasites evolve to break the defenses of their hosts, the National Institutes of Health has granted UC Riverside nematologist Simon “Niels” Groen a $1.9 million Outstanding Investigator Award.

By Jules Bernstein | April 18, 2024 | Science / Technology
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Dog-killing flatworm discovered in Southern California

UC Riverside scientists confirm, for the first time, that a potentially fatal dog parasite is present in a portion of the Colorado River that runs through California.

By Jules Bernstein | March 14, 2024 | Science / Technology
microscope image of new nematode species

Surprise discovery of tiny insect-killing worm 

UC Riverside scientists have discovered a tiny worm species that infects and kills insects. These worms, called nematodes, could control crop pests without pesticides in warm, humid places where other beneficial nematodes are currently unable to thrive.

By Jules Bernstein | February 8, 2024 | Science / Technology
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Are we right to be frightened of brain worms?

Has the news about an Australian woman with a living, wriggling roundworm in her brain got you spooked? After experiencing abdominal pain and night sweats that developed into forgetfulness and depression, the 64-year-old woman was sent to a hospital. An MRI scan did reveal something unusual in her brain, but...

By Jules Bernstein | September 1, 2023 | Science / Technology
vomiting bluejay

How to eat a poison butterfly

In high enough concentrations, milkweed can kill a horse, or a human. To be able to eat this plant, monarchs evolved a set of unusual cellular mutations. New UC Riverside research shows the animals that prey on monarchs also evolved these same mutations.

By Jules Bernstein | November 22, 2021 | Science / Technology
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Parasitic worm venom evades human immune system

It’s likely that billions of people are unaware they have been infected with parasitic worms. A UC Riverside scientist has won $1.8 million to try and understand why. The National Institutes of Health granted an Outstanding Investigator Award to Adler Dillman, an assistant professor of parasitology, so he can shed...

By Jules Bernstein | July 20, 2020 | Science / Technology
An activated Steinernema carpocapsae nematode

Petri dishes don’t make good hosts for parasitic nematodes

Some of what scientists know about how parasitic nematodes damage their host’s tissues may be missing the mark

By Holly Ober | May 2, 2019 | Science / Technology

Getting high on worms

UC Riverside researchers show that in parasitic worm infection both the host and the worm produce cannabis-like molecules

By Iqbal Pittalwala | August 22, 2018 | Science / Technology

Microbiome study suggests marine nematodes are not picky eaters

UCR research finding no relationship between nematode species and microbial profile suggests marine worms don’t have a restrictive diet

By Sarah Nightingale | April 2, 2018 | Science / Technology
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