For patients with polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a common genetic disorder that ravages the waste-removing organ with cysts ...

The roundworm—Caenorhabditis elegans—is the perfect model for scientists because it is hermaphrodite, so it produces both ...

The throat of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans might seem like an odd place for exploring the complexity of life's mechanisms, until one realizes how much information has been collected on ...

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

One organism that researchers frequently employ in their studies of life span is Caenorhabditis elegans, a microscopic roundworm that typically lives to a ripe old age of two to three weeks.

On the other hand, the tiny roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has nearly as many genes as we do—approximately 20,000—but far fewer body parts. Tissue-specific enhancers can work over long ...

Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, is a small roundworm (nematode) usually found in the soil in temperate climates all around the world. It feeds on microorganisms like bacteria and can be most ...

Researchers identify a C. elegans gene that leads the organelles to self-destruct in sperm following fertilization of an egg. The research “comes closest to elucidating a key development process that ...

Nigerian researcher Hilary Akpu has propelled the country into the global scientific spotlight with his revolutionary study ...

There, the researchers dug up almost 300 samples, two of which contained a single nematode. The researchers revived ... to harsh desiccation in the commonly used model species Caenorhabditis elegans ...

The study relied on the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a model organism sharing biological mechanisms with humans. The researchers observed that some neurons become hyperactive with age, thereby ...