The patient, then a 26 - year - old woman from Brookings, Oregon, ended up being the first - ever known
case of the nematode worm Thelazia gulosa, a type of cattle eyeworm, infecting a human.
Hijacking how
neurons of nematode worms are wired is the first step in an approach that could revolutionise our understanding of brains and consciousness
Fluorescing proteins accurately predict the
demise of nematode worms, by measuring the activity of free radicals within their cells
Against a
background of nematode worms, this graphic depicts the stressed mitochondria (lower right, blue and red) accumulating lipid droplets (red balls) in the interior or cytosol of the cell.
«Honestly, I thought I should have gotten in a while ago,» says Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California at San Francisco, whose two decades of research since the 1980s on the developmental
biology of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans finally earned her a place in the National Academy.
15 All seven Columbia astronauts died, but
hundreds of nematode worms, carried in canisters to study the biology of weightlessness, survived.
In the new study, Lee and his colleagues studied piRNAs produced by cells in the reproductive
system of the nematode worm, C. elegans, a classic model organism studied by scientists to understand basic biological processes.
To try and better understand the mechanisms of both fear and anxiety, Salk researchers employed the
use of nematode worms.
Professor Bargmann has devoted more than two decades to the
study of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) as a model organism for understanding how genes and the environment influence animal behavior.
James Le Fanu is disconcerted by the similarity between his genes and
those of a nematode worm or a fruit...