1Department of Cancer Biomedical Science, Graduate School of Cancer Science and Policy, National Cancer Center, Goyang-si, Republic of Korea. 2Immuno-Oncology Branch, Graduate School of Cancer Science ...

As we tidy away the Dracula capes and glow-in-the-dark plastic fangs for another winter, one notorious blood sucker has had a particularly good year. For the first time the medicinal leech Hirudo ...

McFly Angler has a great tutorial on tying a dubbed rabbit leech. I love rabbit leeches, and feel like they don’t get fished enough. In fact, I’d take them over most woolly buggers any day, because ...

Using leeches to suck the blood out of a person might sound medieval, but it’s actually a medicinal practice still used today at many trauma hospitals. Though only used in a handful of cases ...

A project set up to boost Scotland's rare population of medicinal leeches has got its first babies. Twenty have hatched in a captive-breeding programme at the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig ...