One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

Research on C. elegans worms could point to new ways to stop tumor cells from metastasizing in humans DURHAM, N.C. -- What makes some cancer cells stay put while others break loose and spread through ...

Other nematodes can live in extreme environments such ... But the dried-out worms only remained viable for about a week, Kurzchalia said. Simply freezing C. elegans kills them, although dehydrated and ...

A young C. elegans adult glowing green where a protein has been linked to a fluorescent tag and filled with soon-to-be-laid eggs that appear as dark spheres in the mother’s body. Disruption of ...

According to a 2023 study, scientists treated C. elegans worms with rilmenidine and saw ... ever on how to slow human aging and help us all live a little longer. Josh Hawkins has been writing ...

When studying life span, scientists tend to work with organisms that do not live very long ... Another advantage of using C. elegans is that these worms have a simple physiology and easily ...

The hypertension drug rilmenidine has been shown to slow down aging in worms, an effect that in humans could hypothetically help us live longer and keep us healthier in our latter years. Previous ...

This valuable study shows that an odorant that is typically thought of as a repellant actually activates both attractant and repellant olfactory neurons in C. elegans. Solid evidence is provided that ...

Scientists built a microfluidic lab-on-a-chip device that accelerates compound screens and phenotype analyses in C. elegans models of reproductive ... and with millions of worms. - Coleen Murphy, ...