The lowly maggot gets a bad rap, mostly known for feeding on corpses and rotting meat.

Doctors explain why maggot therapy is still a leading treatment in the US - The FDA approved medical use of ‘nature’s microsurgeons’ more than 20 years ago ...

A generation after casu marzu was banned across Europe, artisanal cheesemakers in Sardinia still elevate the controversial ...

In a bloody battle during World War I, two wounded soldiers were stranded on the battlefield in France, hidden and overlooked under some brush. Suffering femur fractures and flesh wounds around their ...

had nothing to lose lisa Baxter thought she had seen it all. The manager of Tufts wound care team, She spent years evaluating sores, incisions and infections in hospitalized patients. I'm not grossed ...

Maggots, the larval stage of certain flies, are already a federally approved treatment for people with nasty bed sores, chronic post-surgical wounds and diabetic foot ulcers. Today, specially prepared ...

In its larval stage, Lucilia sericata looks unassuming enough. Beige and millimeters long, a bottle-fly grub may lack good looks, but it contains a sophisticated set of tools for eating dead and dying ...