News articles tagged with 'Caenorhabditis'
Microscopic worms could hold the key to living life on Mars
— 2 Dec 2011 10:26 | BiologyThe astrophysicist Stephen Hawking believes that if humanity is to survive we will have up sticks and colonise space. But is the human body up to the challenge?…
'Timing is everything' in ensuring healthy brain development
— 8 Jan 2011 14:03 | HealthWork published today shows that brain cells need to create links early on in their existence, when they are physically close together, to ensure successful connections across the brain…
Genetic research shows degeneration in ageing worm
— 28 May 2010 13:00 | BiologyGenetic research focusing on the soil nematode C. elegans has generated fundamental new insights into the way in which these tiny worms age. During the ageing process, the activity…
New tool for RNA silencing
— 2 Apr 2010 13:04 | BiologyAnti-sense reagents have been developed for C. elegans micro RNA. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Silence have created the first class of reagents to potently…
Scientists use light to map neurones' effects on one another
— 18 Dec 2009 13:36 | BiologyScientists at Harvard University have used light and genetic trickery to trace out neurones' ability to excite or inhibit one another, literally shedding new light on the question of…
Nematode courting caught on camera
— 26 Jun 2009 14:08 | BiologyResearchers studying the nervous control of nematode mating behaviour have produced video footage of a male worm preparing to mate with a hermaphrodite. Writing in the open access journal…
Insight into the evolution of parasitism
— 23 Sep 2008 09:01 | BiologyScientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, together with American colleagues, have decoded the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby gaining…
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