For maggots, the experience of eating a succulent meal isn’t just about how their food tastes, but also how it feels.

Some creatures — like maggots — love to feed on decaying fruit. New research shows that they associate the texture of food with how tasty it is, too. So how did researchers figure that out?

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A new study from a postbaccalaureate researcher in Mark Roth’s lab at Fred Hutch Cancer Center, Cameron Suraci, shows that ...

But scientists have long assumed that bacteria can’t survive in the human brain. The powerful blood-brain barrier, the thinking goes, keeps the organ mostly free from outside invaders.

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The condition occurred after the patient consumed undercooked pork, allowing the taenia solium parasite to form larval cysts ...