Congratulations on the excellent supplement of June 2 on model organisms. 1 The section on Caenorhabditis elegans brought back memories for a 78-year-old experimental biologist. Lab safety rules ...

The soil-dwelling model organism C. elegans, long assumed to lack any visual system whatsoever, in fact appears to be strongly responsive to light, according to a ...

and even in C. elegans, in which it was originally described, it does not work in all cells and tissues. By definition, RNAi is biased towards candidate genes identified in model organisms and is ...

Male roundworms are worse at learning from experience than their mates, according to a new study, often to the point of ...

In addition, the model predicted that in tiny organisms such as C. elegans, the generation of a long-lasting electrical signal, such as the one generated within the pharyngeal muscles, must ...

Scientists have long dreamed of creating a virtual organism—a computer model of ... creature in question is the microscopic roundworm C. elegans. Translucent and easy to raise, the thousand ...

We use the short-lived model organism C. elegans, which shares many aging traits, including deficits in learning and memory, with humans to study this problem. The lab uses an interdisciplinary ...

These works could pave the way for preventive interventions against brain aging. Finally, this study underscores the importance of research on model organisms like C. elegans. These small worms offer ...

and modERN (model organism Encyclopedia of Regulatory Networks) projects, in which the investigators utilized both fruit fly and C. elegans roundworm model organisms to identify regions of the ...