Mimicking sugar structures in plants plays a crucial role in the development of effective vaccines against the stomach worm Ostertagia ostertagi. This has been demonstrated by Ruud Wilbers of Wageningen University & Research (WUR) together with researchers from Ghent University and Leiden University Medical Center with a proof-of-concept study.
A live, eight-centimetre-long worm was removed from the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman by doctors in the world’s first case of a new kind of parasitic infection in humans.
This study looked at the effects of human-caused mortality on wolf pack social dynamics, taking a novel approach to analyzing species impacts based on group structure.