WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Head lice often are the bane of schoolchildren, but it's another variety of the insect - body lice - that carries some of the most infamous and deadly diseases that have plagued ...

Head lice have been constant, if unwanted, human companions for as long as our species has been around. Evidence of this ancient connection includes a 10,000-year-old louse found on human remains at ...

‘Lice are like living fossils we carry around on our own heads.’ By Laura Baisas Published Nov 8, 2023 2:00 PM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

WASHINGTON -- Sometimes scientific research can be a lousy job. Literally. In their quest to understand how life works, researchers reported this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of ...

The results of the sequencing and analysis of the human body louse genome, which were published on June 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), offer new insights into the ...

Head lice are considered a nuisance — a pest to be evicted from the hair on your head or the head of a loved one with a special comb or shampoo. But there's more to lice than their elimination. These ...

A new genetic analysis of human lice from across the world sheds light on the global spread of these parasites, their potential for disease transmission and insecticide resistance. The results are ...

In the November issue of the journal Insect Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Purdue and Harvard university researchers report finding lice genes that control the breakdown of their human blood meal ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Clues to human evolution ...