Research on C. elegans worms could point to new ways to stop tumor cells from metastasizing in humans DURHAM, N.C. -- What makes some cancer cells stay put while others break loose and spread through ...

A young C. elegans adult glowing green where a protein has been linked to a fluorescent tag and filled with soon-to-be-laid eggs that appear as dark spheres in the mother’s body. Disruption of ...

This study investigates the auditory sensation in the nematode C. elegans, demonstrating that these worms are capable of sensing and responding to airborne sound. The research outlines methods to ...

Because C. elegans use their sense of smell to detect food as they wiggle ... Researchers previously found that ablating these neurons boosted pathogen resistance and improved worm survival. 2 However ...

Perhaps you’ve read in a biology textbook that humans have the same number of genes as Caenorhabditis elegans, a worm used in scientific ... genes in comparison to C. elegans,” Alvarez-Ponce ...

C. elegans needs to eat bacteria to survive, but knowing which cells are nutritious and edible and which are potentially harmful is crucial to the worm's survival ... that we can pick up on ...

"We are now keen to explore if rilmenidine may have other clinical applications." The C. elegans worm is a favorite for studies, because many of its genes have similarities to counterparts in our ...

Our primary approach has been to develop transgenic C. elegans strains that express these human proteins, often resulting in abnormal phenotypes that can be the basis of classic genetic screens. The ...