This valuable work used molecular biology, cell biology, and genetic approaches to unravel individual genes and potential pathways that contribute to paternal mitochondrial inheritance using C.

Over multiple generations, small nematode worms began preferring microplastic-contaminated food over cleaner options, which could have consequences for ecosystem health ...

New research has uncovered that neurons store their own glycogen, acting as “backup batteries” to keep the brain functioning ...

A new Yale study has revealed that neurons—the energy-hungry cells that connect and direct activity in the brain—are equipped ...

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

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

A Ph.D. graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, with a background in computer science and mathematics, ...

This innovative software, CRISPRware, optimizes guide RNA design for genome editing, supporting research on genetic disorders and uncharacterized peptides.

CRISPRware is a new tool scientists can use to design the best guide RNAs to edit genes in many organisms, without the need for deep bioinformatics expertise. By making gene editing more precise and ...

By studying Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), commonly known as roundworms, researchers at Duke University Medical Center have unveiled a new mechanism that could mediate neuron-glia ...

To see if other kinds of worms could also form such a “superorganism”, researchers created conditions to coach the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans into assembling into similar structures.

The soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 959 cells and a body that is mostly gut and reproductive organs. Yet its reproduction is similar enough to ours that scientists like Francis McNally ...