A new study offers insights into the powerful anticoagulants contained in the saliva of leeches most often used in medical practice. The results of new research published this week in Scientific ...

image: An international team of researchers, led by Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) scientist Sebastian Kvist, have announced the completion and results of their work to sequence the genome of Hirudo ...

Excavations by a University of Kansas paleontologist working in a treasure trove of fossils called the "Spence Shale Lagerstätte" have revealed an ancient sea worm unknown to science until now. The ...

An interdisciplinary group of Spanish scientists, bringing together biologists and chemists from the Universities of Seville, Huelva, the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Institute of Marine ...

A variety of bioactive proteins from medicinal leeches, like species of Hirudo, have been characterized and evaluated for their potential therapeutic biomédical properties. However, there has not ...