We already live in symbiosis with bacteria — why not take it a step further? In a groundbreaking new study, researchers modified a human hookworm and got it to manufacture and secrete functional human ...

Hookworms, intestinal parasites that infect hundreds of millions of people in under-resourced tropical regions around the globe, have evolved to survive inside the human gut for years, secreting ...

Scientists at UMass Medical School in Worcester, Mass., and Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., have sequenced the genome of a hookworm that has been known to infect humans. The findings may help ...