Caenorhabditis elegans, one millimeter long, has just 959 cells. The worm’s simplicity has made it a mainstay of scientific research. Skip to content Skip to site index.

In the 1970s biologist Sydney Brenner and his colleagues began preserving tiny hermaphroditic roundworms known as Caenorhabditis elegans in agar and osmium fixative, slicing up their bodies like ...

I decided that I, too, needed to attend the Longwood Area Worm Meeting. Thus began a trip into the world of C. elegans worms and the people who love them. In 25 years as a writer in Boston, I’ve ...

Pattern recognition system that monitors disease-causing bacteria in C. elegans A nuclear hormone receptor intercepts pathogen-derived signals of growth and virulence, revealing an evolutionarily ...

C. elegans can be grown in a petri-dish containing E. coli in the laboratory, as their natural diet is bacteria. Because of their small size, large numbers of C. elegans can be maintained in the ...

C. elegans provides exactly such a setting: a relatively simple but versatile model for biological investigations whose results often reveal general principles that remain valid or have parallels ...

Researchers demonstrated that the microscopic worm C. elegans uses a retrotransposon called Cer1 to transfer a learned behavior (avoidance of a pathogenic bacterium) between worms. In earlier work ...

C. elegans has a simple anatomy with a small number of tissues and internal organs (see Figures 2 and 3). The head contains the brain and the prominent feeding organ - the pharynx. The main body is ...

Researchers found that after C. elegans worms ate a disease-causing bacteria, its children knew from birth to avoid making the same mistake June 21, 2025 e-Paper LOGIN Account ...

C. elegans nematodes, or roundworms, undergo examination by project scientists. The worms are descendants of those that were part of an experiment that flew on the shuttle Columbia's last mission ...