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

In other words, the same chemical that puts the worm to sleep also helps wake it up again, simply by targeting different ...

Researchers studying nematode worms show that natural sleep and anesthesia both stop movement, but through very different ...

Contributed by Gary Ruvkun, January 4, 2019 (sent for review September 13, 2018; reviewed by Danielle A. Garsin and Emily R. Troemel) ...

Key Laboratory of Ion Beam Bioengineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei, Anhui 230031, People’s Republic of China, Department of Chemistry and Biology, Huainan Normal University, Huainan, Anhui ...

Learn how this species of worm detects death, resulting in a range of behavioral and physiological responses.

A new discovery provides a unique example of sexual dimorphism in the structure of a single neuron, which is linked to ...

Edited* by Xiaodong Wang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, and approved September 7, 2010 (received for review June 24, 2010) ...

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 ...

Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, and Engineering and ...