The ocean floors are literally crawling with nematode worms. A square meter of sediment can contain millions of worms from hundreds of species.
Ecology
Apr 3, 2018
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John Sulston, a Nobel Prize-winning British scientist who helped decode the human genome, has died. He was 75.
Biotechnology
Mar 9, 2018
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Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, are tiny worms with tiny brains—their whole bodies are the width of a pencil tip and contain only 302 neurons. These nematodes live out their two-week-long lifespans in rotting vegetation, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 23, 2018
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The western corn rootworm continues to be on the rise in Europe. Why attempts to biologically target this crop pest by applying entomopathogenic nematodes have failed, can now be explained by the amazing defense strategy ...
Ecology
Nov 27, 2017
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Laboratory video tells the story: tiny, parasitic worms swimming freely in a nutrient solution are active and mobile; expose the same kind of worms to a mixture of four drugs optimized by an engineering technique and they're ...
Biotechnology
Oct 4, 2017
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New research by a Florida State University scientist has examined how oil and other hydrocarbons in Antarctica affect miniature organisms called meiofauna that slip through the sediment widely unnoticed to the casual observer.
Ecology
Sep 21, 2017
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In a first-of-its-kind study, NC State researchers applied a new approach to examine how members of two different species – a plant and a pathogen, for example, or a bacterium and a human – interact at the molecular level, ...
Biotechnology
Sep 12, 2017
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Tiny creatures in soil that attack plants have shown the ability to survive for at least three years stored in dry conditions in a recent AgResearch study, giving new insights into the biosecurity threats posed by passenger ...
Biotechnology
Aug 24, 2017
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Tiny eel-like creatures called nematodes are surrounding us. While they can be free-living (a cup of soil or seawater contains thousands), the most well-known nematodes are the parasitic kind that wreak havoc in people, animals ...
Biotechnology
Jul 24, 2017
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The plant parasitic nematode is an agricultural pest that has no fundamental countermeasures and requires the development of resistant plant varieties or pesticides. This parasitic pest creates a nest called a "gall" on the ...
Biotechnology
Jul 19, 2017
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