Monday, June 08, 2026

Hookworms have spent millions of years surviving inside a human host. Really!

Last time I checked, the earliest humans came about only roughly several hundred thousand years ago!

"“The hookworm has spent millions of years perfecting how to assure long-term survival inside a human host and how to get molecules out of its body and into ours,” said co-author of a new study Makedonka Mitreva in a statement. “We asked: What if we could add one more molecule to the roughly 1000 things the worm already secretes, something therapeutically useful to people?” ..."

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Makedonka Mitreva (Source) knows something about hookworms! 😊


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