The symptoms of heartworm disease are directly related to the location, number and size of living and dead adult worms inside the dog. (petwave.com)
The device might one day allow physicians to tell the difference between live and dead microbes — and enable them to recognize effective and ineffective antibiotics within minutes. (sciencemag.org)
To make the find, researchers collected slugs and snails from a forest in Germany and examined their feces for live and dead mites. (sciencemag.org)