Researchers advance effort to manage parasitic roundworms
Wednesday, March 27, 2019 - 13:10
in Biology & Nature
Roundworms that feed on plants cause approximately $100 billion in annual global crop damage. Now researchers at the University of New Hampshire have made a patent-pending discovery that certain enzymes in roundworms, called nematodes, behave differently than the same enzymes in humans, with amino acids potentially playing a key role.