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Man’s health crashes after getting donated kidney—it was riddled with worms

Rare cases like this have led to changes in organ screening protocols.

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Steve Dustcircle 🌹May 13, 2023
We now know how #parasiticworms help ward off #obesity and #diabetes
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2372823-we-now-know-how-parasitic-worms-help-ward-off-obesity-and-diabetes/
We now know how parasitic worms help ward off obesity and diabetes

We have long known that parasitic worm infections are associated with lower rates of several conditions. Now, research in mice reveals how the worms elicit these protections

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Phys.orgOct 26, 2022

Referenced link: https://phys.org/news/2022-10-resistance-genes-drugs-parasitic-worms.html
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Resistance genes mapped for drugs to treat #parasiticworms @CellReports https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S2211124722013778 https://phys.org/news/2022-10-resistance-genes-drugs-parasitic-worms.html

Resistance genes mapped for drugs to treat parasitic worms

Drug resistance in parasitic worms poses a serious threat to global efforts to limit the significant health and economic impacts they have on people, pets and livestock. Researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Glasgow and the Moredun Research Institute have used genetic crosses, drug selection and whole genome sequencing to map the genes linked to drug resistance of the parasitic worm, Haemonchus contortus, for the first time.

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