The model organism Caenorhabditis elegans is quick to forget a notable odour — unless it is chilled or given lithium.

Caenorhabditis elegans is a species of soil-dwelling nematode (roundworm) used as a model organism in molecular genetics and developmental biology. It is predominantly hermaphroditic (can self ...

More information: A. Muñoz-Juan et al, Caenorhabditis elegans RAC1/ced-10 mutants as a new animal model to study very early stages of Parkinson's disease, Progress in Neurobiology (2024). DOI: 10 ...

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A robotic system capable of imaging and transferring the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans could replace hours of tedious lab work, according to a recent study. Health is wealth as the saying ...

So Sherwood’s team studies a similar process in millimeter-long transparent worms called Caenorhabditis elegans. During a worm’s development, a specialized cell called the anchor cell must break ...

Min Han and Arthur Nozik, both in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Kristine Larson in the College of Engineering and ...

Simulating animals is not a new idea; one years-long effort, OpenWorm, is trying to replicate the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans on a computer. What’s particularly innovative about the DeepMind ...

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have created an endoscopic device that can 3D image the stiffness of individual ...

David Fay, a professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Molecular Biology, recently chaired a blue-ribbon advisory ...