This hinged two-layered dressing decreases the time and expense of constructing maggot wound dressings by combining all of the necessary materials and adhesives into a single user-friendly "cage." ...

This electron-microscope image expose the spines, or "nanopillars," that poke up from the body of the rat-tailed maggot. The length and density of the spines vary as shown in this cross-section image ...

These aren't your grandfather's maggots. Maggot, or larval, therapy has been around since ancient times as a way to heal wounds. Now, the method has gone high-tech—in some ways—and it's being tested ...

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Maggots have one goal in life: to feed. They gorge ravenously in order to grow as quickly as possible. Speed is of the essence as they leave behind their vulnerable bodies, and transform from a fat, ...