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An international team led by EPFL has discovered a powerful anti-aging pathway in roundworms, revealing how boosting the cell ...

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For me, the most fascinating part is the fact that such a group of animals managed to adapt to different habitats, which ...

At the town of Gbapleu, a rope tied between two metal barrels separates Ivory Coast from Guinea. A thin trickle of traffic ...

In 1986, Guinea worm disease afflicted an estimated 3.5 million people. In 2024, there were just 14 provisional human cases across South Sudan, Angola, Cameroon, Ethiopia and Mali.

What’s more, as the number of cases has dwindled, new challenges have emerged. In 2018, Guinea worm disease was found in Angola, a country not known to have had cases in the past. As a result, in 2019 ...

Only one human disease — smallpox — has been eradicated by human efforts. Guinea worm disease could become the second, though it may take years and new methods to push the effort across the ...

Guinea worm disease was first detected in dogs in 2012, forcing a shift in strategy. “Infection in dogs and cats in these last countries makes it harder to get there by 2030,” Tappero said.

Former President Jimmy Carter hoped to outlive the Guinea worm — and he came achingly close to achieving that goal. Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, and his nonprofit, the Carter Center, led ...

The village of 500 people hadn’t seen Guinea worm infections since 2014, until Nyingong Aguek and her two sons drank swampy water while traveling in 2022. A fourth person also got infected.

Carter made eradicating Guinea worm a top mission of The Carter Center, the nonprofit he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, founded after leaving the White House. The former president rallied public ...