The life cycle of C. elegans is around two to three weeks and starts with an egg leading to four larval stages before reaching maturity. C. elegans display two sexes; male or hermaphrodite.

The mere presence of a dead counterpart elicits strong responses across species. For example, many insects such as bees and ...

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 ...

Researchers at Hirotsu Bio Science have now genetically engineered a version of C. elegans that is sensitive to trace amounts of substances produced by pancreatic cancer at its early stages ...

C. elegans is named after the Latin word for ... under the light of a microscope and cycle through all developmental stages in about three days. The nematode was the first animal to have ...

The nematode C. elegans can withstand even desiccation by entering a special larval stage called dauer. Its metabolism stops as the worm dries— and reactivates again on contact with water.

A valuable genetic tool "This model of adrenoleukodystrophy in C. elegans is a valuable genetic tool that will allow us to study the mechanisms involved in the disease and to find pharmacological ...

The goal was to create a wiring diagram—a map of all 302 neurons in the C. elegans nervous system as well as all the 7,000 connections, or synapses, between those neurons. In 1986 the scientists ...