Word of a curious worm phenomenon has spread among scientists over the years. Words like, “they’re living in giant towers, ...

A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist. Caenorhabditis elegans, one millimeter long, has just 959 cells. The worm’s simplicity has made ...

Researchers fondly call the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans “the worm” because of its widespread use in research to understand neuronal and molecular biology. It was the first multicellular ...

The advantages of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans for genetics studies are its short generation time, and that it is easy and inexpensive to maintain. Mutant strains can be frozen and ...