Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a roundworm used extensively in biological research, opening a new pathway ...

Roundworms even more useful than researchers previously thought Date: October 5, 2016 Source: Uppsala Universitet Summary: The one millimetre long roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as ...

Genetic switch for C. elegans Date: January 30, 2019 Source: University of Konstanz Summary: With their first ever RNA-based inducible system for switching on genes in the roundworm Caenorhabditis ...

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 ...

In many species, mating comes at the steep price of an organism's life, an evolutionary process intended to regulate reproductive competition. But Princeton University researchers report that males of ...

Princeton University researchers report in the journal eLife two separate causes of early death in males of the roundworm species Caenorhabditis elegans—mating and pheromones released by other ...

The tiny, transparent roundworm known as Caenorhabditis elegans is roughly the size of a comma. Its entire body is made up of just about 1,000 cells. A third are brain cells, ...

Classified as a nematode, the roundworm caenorhabditis elegans (or c. elegans to its friends) might seem like just another tiny thing to someone who’s not looking at the current research around ...

New research presented at the American Chemical Society has demonstrated how roundworms can be used to detect lung cancer. A “worm-on-a-chip” device has been developed that is currently 70 ...

The 1-millimeter-long roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has been used as a model organism in scientific research, and has therefore been extensively examined. A research group at Uppsala University ...