Ambros first heard about the bag of worms at a 1979 lecture by Robert Horvitz, who had studied C. elegans in Brenner's Cambridge lab. (discovermagazine.com)
Schafer's team injected DNA that codes for their protein into the gonads of Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worms. (newscientist.com)
Moreover, ATP synthase has already been shown to control aging in C. elegans worms and flies. (sciencedaily.com)