Dr Ghali said that the disease, which is termed cysticercosis, is due to the presence of larval cysts of the tapeworm Taenia solium. The parasite infects humans through eating raw or undercooked ...

“This is a condition known as cysticercosis. Essentially, these are larval cysts of taenia solium — also known as the pork tapeworm.” He explained that the unnamed patient developed the ...

June bugs are clumsy flyers and often run into walls and windows with a thud. In the larval (grub) stage, they are 3/4 to 1 3/4 inches long, and their bodies curve into a C shape at rest.

IT is well known that the test or outer tunic in most Simple Ascidians is penetrated by a system of tubes containing blood. These “vessels” were shown in 1872 by Oskar Hertwig 1 to be ...

Our findings, thus, reveal a novel microRNA-Lefty molecular pathway that regulates mesenchymal cells differentiating into tunic cells required for the tunic formation in tunicate species. Introduction ...

Within the coastal zone, oceanographic features, such as fronts, can have major effects on the abundance and distribution of larval fish. We investigated the effects of fronts on larval fish ...