News tagged with nematode worms
'Worm speak' uses chemicals to communicate
(PhysOrg.com) -- A species of small, transparent roundworms have a highly evolved language in which they combine chemical fragments to create precise molecular messages that control social behavior, reports ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Why sex with a partner is better (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- OK, it takes two for human reproduction, and now it seems that plants and animals that can rely on either a partner or go alone by self-fertilization give their offspring a better chance for ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Worms from hell identified far below the Earth's surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study published this week in Nature, researchers Gaetan Borgonie from Ghent University in Belgium and Tullis Onstott from Princeton University announced the discovery of new nematode specie ...
Jun 02, 2011 |
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The sweet smell of aging
What does the smell of a good meal mean to you? It may mean more than you think. Specific odors that represent food or indicate danger are capable of altering an animal's lifespan and physiological profile by activating a ...
Apr 20, 2010 |
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How an Antarctic worm makes antifreeze and what that has to do with climate change
Two Brigham Young University researchers who just returned from Antarctica are reporting a hardy worm that withstands its cold climate by cranking out antifreeze. And when its notoriously dry home runs out ...
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Chips, worms and gray matter: More similar than you think
Scientists have discovered "striking similarities" between human brains, the nervous system of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans and computer chips.
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Researchers extend genetic code of an entire animal
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers Sebastian Greiss and Jason Chin of the Medical Research Council's Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, have succeeded in manipulating the DNA of a nematode such that a ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Making microscopic worms into a more deadly insecticide
Microscopic nematode worms can be a potent organic insecticide, killing crop-raiding bugs without harming plants or beneficial insects and without environmental side effects of chemical. The problem is that ...
Jan 15, 2010 |
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Genetic research shows degeneration in ageing worm
Genetic research focusing on the soil nematode C. elegans has generated fundamental new insights into the way in which these tiny worms age. During the ageing process, the activity of the worm's genes gradually ...
May 28, 2010 |
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Worm genes KO'd
Knocking genes out of action allows researchers to learn what genes do by seeing what goes wrong without them. University of Utah biologists pioneered the field. Mario Capecchi won a Nobel Prize for developing ...
Apr 25, 2010 |
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Nature study shows common lab dye is a wonder drug -- for worms
Basic Yellow 1, a dye used in neuroscience laboratories around the world to detect damaged protein in Alzheimer's disease, is a wonder drug for nematode worms. In a study appearing in the March 30, online edition of Nature, the dy ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 30, 2011 |
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Genes, environment, or chance?
Biologists attribute variations among individual organisms to differences in genes or environment, or both. But a new study of nematode worms with identical genes, raised in identical environments, has revealed ...
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Chromosomes dance and pair up on the nuclear membrane (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Meiosis - the pairing and recombination of chromosomes, followed by segregation of half to each egg or sperm cell - is a major crossroads in all organisms reproducing sexually. Yet, how the ...
Nov 13, 2009 |
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When worms stick together and swim on thin water, what happens and why does it matter?
Nematodes, microscopic worms, are making engineers look twice at their ability to exhibit the "Cheerios effect" when they move in a collective motion.
Feb 08, 2011 |
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Video: Blue Death: The frontiers of ageing research
David Gems, at UCL's Institute of Healthy Ageing, leads one of the labs teasing apart the genetic nature of ageing using one of nature's simplest animals, the nematode worm.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 30, 2010 |
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