New research in C. elegans shows that Ephrin, Robo, Netrin, and heparan sulfate proteoglycan signaling converge on a single ...

In 1963, on a hunch, a South African biologist named Sydney Brenner decided to study a species of worms named C. elegans. The worms turned out to be the perfect lab animal. They were simple creatures ...

New research in C. elegans shows that the conserved stress granule protein GTBP-1 reorganizes into P-body-associated granules ...

University of Michigan researchers have discovered that a worm commonly used in the study of biology uses a set of proteins unlike those seen in other studied organisms to protect the ends of its DNA.

The IDIBELL Neurometabolic Diseases group, with international collaboration, has identified a model of chromosome X-linked adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) in C. elegans. X-ALD is a rare disorder of the ...

Using four unrelated strains of the microscopic nematode C. elegans originating from different parts of the world, a group of worm biologists have developed a model system to study individual ...

A workhorse of modern biology is sick, and scientists couldn't be happier. Researchers have found that the nematode C. elegans, a millimeter-long worm used extensively for decades to study many ...

Researchers describe a new manner of detecting microbial infection that intercepts pathogen-derived signals of growth to assess the relative threat of virulent bacteria. A nuclear hormone receptor in ...

Roundworms fed a magnetic bacterium lived 43.39 percent longer on average than untreated worms, according to a team at the ...

Many organisms react to the smell of deadly pathogens by reflexively avoiding them. But a recent study from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that the nematode C. elegans also reacts to ...