Researchers from Kyushu University have developed an innovative technique to non-invasively measure two key signals, membrane ...

Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, is a small roundworm (nematode) usually found in the soil in temperate climates all around the world. It feeds on microorganisms like bacteria and can be most ...

New researchers uncover the role of Piezo channels that sense pressure in the digestive tract and regulate swallowing behavior. The research opens new opportunities for developing treatments for ...

Prof. David Harel’s research, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, on modeling the feeding process of C. elegans to reveal biological system dynamics and enable in silico experiments.

A research team led by Professor Kim Kyuhyung at the Department of Brain Sciences, DGIST, has discovered a new principle that ...

In the 1970s, scientists from several countries proposed to reconstruct, one by one, all the neurons in the brain as they appear under an electron microscope. They started with a small worm.

US scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their research ...

elegans to sense the smell of cancer. And it turned out that nematodes such as C. elegans are amazingly good as a biosensor that can detect the smell of cancer in urine. Subsequent studies ...

This important study will allow for a better understanding of anthelmintic drug resistance in nematodes, a growing concern for public health. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the role of UBR ...

The study, titled "The soil Mycobacterium sp. Promotes Health and Longevity through Different Bacteria-derived Molecules in Caenorhabditis elegans" was published online in Aging Cell on November ...