Worm-inspired treatments inch toward the clinic - 3 Quarks Daily

Worm-inspired treatments inch toward the clinic - 3 Quarks Daily

Amber Dance in Knowable Magazine: The experiment was a striking attempt to investigate weight control. For six weeks, a group of mice gorged on lard-enriched mouse chow, then scientists infected the mice with worms. The worms wriggled beneath the animals’ skin, migrated to blood vessels that surround the intestines, and started laying eggs. Bruno Guigas, a molecular biologist at the Leiden University Center for Infectious Diseases in the Netherl…