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

People spend about a third of their lives asleep. Yet, surprisingly little is known about how our brains control falling asleep and waking up. Now, researchers led by Prof. Henrik Bringmann at the ...

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.

Research reveals that for C. elegans worms, the presence of dead members of their species has profound behavioral and physiological effects, leading them to more quickly reproduce and shortening their ...

They weren’t snakes, of course, but nematodes, also known as roundworms—and, it turns out, they’re the most common ...

A new study published in Physical Review Letters has introduced a new form of the classic Ising model that, by incorporating ...

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) ...

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