Tag: worms

A new species of stalked puffball, a gasteroid fungus, has been named after the ‘Shai-Hulud’ sandworms of Frank Herbert's iconic ...

A research team, led by Professor Toru Miura from the University of Tokyo, shows how the expression of developmental genes ...

“ little work published on the effect of parental age in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, a common model organism for ...

A new analysis sheds light on the molecular processes involved when a carnivorous species of fungus known as Arthrobotrys oligospora ...

In a recent publication in Nature Communications, a joint research team of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of ...

This huge step forward in understanding how neurons communicate through extremely short proteins called neuropeptides will help scientists understand how ...

There’s a rhythm to developing life. Growing from a tiny cell cluster into an adult organism takes precise timing and ...

In a world full of bizarre animals, hairworms are some of the strangest: parasitic worms that manipulate the behavior of ...

LA JOLLA (July 11, 2023)—The life of the tiny worm called Caenorhabditis elegans consists mostly of looking for food, eating ...

In nature, smaller animals often attach themselves to larger ones to “hitch a ride” and save energy migrating large distances. ...

Cholesterol and phytosterol are sterols, fatty compounds essential for many biological processes such as the functioning of cell membranes. Up to ...

Hydrogels? Many people use these substances without knowing it. As superabsorbents in nappies, for example, hydrogels absorb a lot of ...

Marijuana (cannabis) is well known for giving people the “munchies.” Not only does it make people want to eat more, ...

A research group from Nagoya University in central Japan has discovered three new species of bioluminescent polycirrus worms from different ...

RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Were it not for the COVID-19 pandemic, an important discovery about the development of nematodes — elongated ...

Have you ever thought about what you have in common with tiny roundworms? As the “nematodes” are metazoan animals like ...

In new peer-reviewed research published Nov. 3rd, 2022 in Nature Communications, Emily Spaulding, PhD. and Dustin Updike, PhD. reveal the ...

Tailoring a person’s diet or medicine based on their genomes has been a goal of the medical community for decades, ...

Researchers studying ancient sea bed burrows and trails have discovered that bottom burrowing animals were among the first to bounce ...

Studying two highly divergent phyla of worms that contain numerous parasites that cause human and livestock diseases, the research group ...