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Excerpt from Why we die: The new science of aging and the quest for immortality Written by Venki Ramakrishnan with…

adult female insect Angiostrongylus cantonensis It was recovered from the lungs of rats and has a distinctive barber’s pole appearance…

An 8cm (3in) worm has been found alive in the brain of an Australian woman. In a world first, the…

A live roundworm after being excised from a patient’s brain.In the first case of its kind, Australian doctors found a…