Experts think cockroach brains could be the best ingredient for fighting superinfections in humans. While cockroaches themselves may make our skin crawl, what’s inside them could hold the key to ...

A Lenexa man is trying to legalize pet raccoons in Kansas. Stephen Kaspar is one step closer after testifying before the ...

People are coming together to rally behind the family of a Pryor boy with a rare infection caused by a parasite called ...

When you’re diagnosed with brain cancer, learning as much as you can about it can help you choose the best treatment for you. This guide shows you the basics on the types of brain cancer and how ...

Raccoons are one of the smartest mammals. Although they have a small brain, they have the neuron density of a primate – as many neurons as a dog, but in a cat-sized brain. This high neuron density ...

But every so often, it’s an indicator of a much more nightmarish scenario: parasites setting up shop in your brain after previously incubating in rodents, slugs, and snails. This was ...

A 30-year-old woman in the United States was told by doctors she had parasites in her brain after presenting to the hospital with a burning sensation in her feet. The worms seem to have been unlucky ...

The terms "left-brained" and "right-brained" refer to the two hemispheres of the brain's cerebrum. The left hemisphere generally focuses more on speech and language, while the right hemisphere manages ...

You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas of the brain. In the last two decades, scientists have joined the throngs of ...

Now, surgeons at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, have managed to remove the remnants of his parasitic twin through a “rarest of rare” surgery and given him a chance to live ...