RIVERSIDE — Chemical pesticides have come under a lot of scrutiny lately for their potential effects on human health and the environment. In fact, several cities across the country have started taking ...

Soybean farmers around the world face a persistent and costly enemy hidden beneath the soil: soybean cyst nematode (SCN), a microscopic roundworm that attacks plant roots and drains yields. SCN is one ...

A piece of rotting fruit is likely covered in hundreds if not thousands of microscopic roundworms, including C. elegans—a popular experimental model system for studying neurogenetics. With a lifespan ...

Jeff Corwin, a biologist and wildlife conservationist, said "it's always important when we discover new life," after researchers at the University of Utah discovered a new species of nematodes, or ...

Utah’s Great Salt Lake has just yielded a new resident, a microscopic animal that no one had ever documented there before. The discovery of a tiny roundworm, formally described as a new species, is ...

This article originally appeared in Sacramento Inno, an American City Business Journals affiliate publication of Bizwomen. Pheronym Inc. has developed methods to brew up pheromones that can control ...