The 39th U.S. president aimed to quash the debilitating water-based infection before he died. Through the Carter Center's ...

One of the worst forms of plastic pollution may have met its match in the saliva of a humble worm. Spanish researchers say they've discovered chemicals in the wax worm's drool that break down ...

Federica Bertocchini, from the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), removed a batch of wax worms, the larvae of the common insect Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) from honeycombs in her ...

Federica Bertocchini at the Margarita Salas Center for Biological Research and her colleagues have isolated unique, plastic-eating enzymes from the saliva of wax worms. These biological agents ...

Former President Jimmy Carter's efforts through the Carter Center to combat Guinea worm began back in the 1980s ... According to the center, there were just 14 cases recorded globally in 2021 ...