WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The soybean farmer's biggest enemy – a tiny parasitic worm known as the soybean cyst nematode – will soon not be a worry, thanks to Purdue University scientists and Midwestern ...

They tend to just sit there in their cyst." "For reasons we don't understand, oftentimes, the worm will just kind of live in its cyst for a number of years and not cause any symptoms," Wilson adds.

The beet cyst nematode, Heterodera schachtii, is a microscopic worm which feeds from the fibrous roots of sugar beet and other hosts. The nematodes are soil-borne and can persist in infected ...

Did a worm eat part of the brain of presidential candidate ... "The parasite larvae reach the brain via the circulatory system, then produce a cyst that displaces the surrounding tissues." ...