What might such an insidious-sounding head look like under a microscope? Not very nice, as it happens. One extreme closeup from 2017 reveals the scolex of a Taenia solium tapeworm, and it's just ...

Petrunkevitch amassed a large collection of parasites, including slides he prepared of original specimens studied by Theodor Bilharz, a German scientist who performed groundbreaking research on ...

No microscope is needed for a close look at the tapeworm Taenia saginata, which regularly reaches 33 feet (10 meters) in length. This tapeworm hatches inside the digestive tract of cattle, and ...

Trautwein and her colleagues have peeled the mites off microscope slides that they super-glued to their faces. They've scraped the little guys off people's foreheads with the curved end of a bobby ...