National Human Genome Research Institute has put money forward to expand the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE). The money is to be targeted at providing complete genomes and improving experimental techniques. Read more by following this link:...

A family of nematode worms, descendants of those that survived the space shuttle Colmbia accident will be flown into space and examined to detect the affects of radiation and zero gravity. Read more here https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/sts134.html

Neurodegenerative models.         C. elegans has been established as an excellent model for the study of neurodegeneration. The organism is simple enough to gain relativly quick results, yet complex enough to serve as an accurate model for...

  1974 •    Syndney Brenner starts using C.elegans as a model organism after geneticists find that the fruit fly has a very complex development making it difficult to study. •    Brenner saw an opportunity in choosing to study C.elegans as a geneticist,...

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A team of scientists has discovered that the Notch pathway is directly involved with sleep in the Nematode C. elegans. To read more, follow this link https://www.cbs42.com/content/health/story/Sleep-Pathway-Discovered/3pKEryLn3kyCNfzIKpF7JA.cspx