The Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein (WASP) family lie at a signalling node ... GBD in yellow and blue, VCA region in red), as a helix from the C terminus fits snugly into a groove on the opposite ...

When a wasp stings, it injects venom into the skin, causing pain, redness, and swelling. Unlike bees, wasps can sting ...

Despite its name, the Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) is not only implicated in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a rare genetic disease characterized by low platelet count, eczema and recurrent ...

A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, stings really can be a matter of life or death. One wasp in particular makes even the biggest, hairiest ...

The Scarlet Velvet Ant, which is actually a type of wasp, has a sting so painful that it feels like hot oil spilling over ...

Mr Murray-Obodynski said that two weeks before the wasp sting his wife had been riding when she received another sting which had swollen 'to the size of a fried egg'. They had thought it was a ...

Researchers have just learned how parasitoid wasps rapidly develop new venoms via an often overlooked evolutionary mode of acquiring new genes. Parasitoid wasps use venom to alter the metabolism, ...