Sentences with phrase «microscopic worms with»

In 2016, for example, scientists at Florida Atlantic University and the Scripps Research Institute for the first time induced seizures in nematodes, microscopic worms with just 302 brain cells.

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The team at Salk started with a simple creature, the microscopic worm called Caenorhabditis elegans.

With worms as his subjects, he plumbs the cellular mechanisms driving the complex protein interactions regulating lifespan, some of which — remarkably — have been conserved through evolution all the way from his microscopic Caenorhabditis elegans to us.

However, the researchers didn't use actual worms, but an active nematic composed of flexible filaments covered with microscopic engines that are constantly converting energy into motion.

For years, scientists have been unable to reconcile the nutritional requirements of crustaceans, sea cucumbers, snails, and tube worms nearly a mile beneath the surface with the amount of nourishment — microscopic organisms and other organic matter — that rains down from above.

Mosquitoes infect the dog with microscopic larvae daily and it takes these larvae at least six months to mature into adult worms in the heart.

A mosquito bites an animal infected with heartworm and microscopic baby worms, known as microfilaria, are transferred to the mosquito.

The reason is that dog worms may remain in the dog while the only thing that is shed are microscopic eggs that can not be seen with the naked eye.