For over 20 years, the 3-foot-long ribbon worm Baseodiscus the Eldest (B for short) was more a “long-time acquaintance” than ...

David Biron’s lab contains arrays of microscopes in darkened rooms, all focused on tiny worms in various stages of development. These worms have cameras trained on them day and night, generating tens ...

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 creatures ...

NORMAL — Boot camp. That's how an Illinois State University faculty member describes what he is put a group of high school students through this week as part of the Summer Research Academy. Eighty ...

From Julie Bort, one of the Microsoft Subnet editors: Microsoft researcher and mathematician Jennifer Tour Chayes set her skills on studying the best patch defense against mutating worms. She ...

Worms don't wiggle when they have Alzheimer's disease. Yet something helped worms with the disease hold onto their wiggle in Professor Jessica Tanis's lab at the University of Delaware. In solving the ...

Scientists are studying the behavior of the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans in the hopes of shedding light on the function and evolutionary origins of animal behaviors such as locomotion, feeding and ...