A sugar in sea cucumbers may block a cancer-linked enzyme without affecting blood clotting or requiring pig-based drugs.

This valuable study concerns a model for transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, the learned avoidance by C. elegans of the PA14 pathogenic strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A recent study ...

A drug used for high blood pressure, known as rilmenidine, may also be effective in slowing the aging process, even in older ...

A new working model explains the molecular mechanism by which the protein anillin controls asymmetry during cell division, ...

Symmetry is a fundamental characteristic of most multi-cell animals. However, the cell division of embryonic cells is ...

Is there a difference in brain structure between men and women? If we were to find such a difference in a single neuron, would it matter? One of the most useful models for studying these questions ...

Among various model organisms, Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has shown special relevance in neurological disorder research. Escape responses, including reversals and omega turns, are controlled ...

Abstract: With widening interests in using model organisms for reverse genetic approaches and biomimmetic microrobotics, motility phenotyping of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is expanding across ...

This pioneering discovery was made using the roundworm Caenorhabditis ... it can be solved. C. elegans provides exactly such a setting: a relatively simple but versatile model for biological ...

elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist. A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist. Caenorhabditis elegans, one ...

Caenorhabditis elegans is a species of nematode worm and is frequently chosen as a model organism to study human diseases. Image Credits: Heiti Paves / Shutterstock.com While not as sophisticated ...