In a study published in Science Advances, a team of UC Davis researchers tracked the movement of fluorescent particles inside the cells of microscopic worms, providing unprecedented insights into ...

Researchers from Academia Sinica, Taiwan and the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Germany, have revealed how the nematode gene nhr-66 controls the production of cuticular collagens that ...

Microscopic worms are being launched into space this week in a bid to unlock the “secrets of long-duration space travel”. British scientists are preparing to launch a crew of microscopic worms – each ...

UC Davis researchers Gant Luxton, Daniel Starr and Xiangyi Ding have used tiny fluorescent particles to study what is going on inside the cells of Caenorhabditis worms. They found that the cells are ...

New research from the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences (LMS) provides a powerful, scalable method for finding treatments for rare genetic diseases using tiny, transparent worms. Rare diseases may be ...

Microscopic worms are being launched into space this week in a bid to unlock the "secrets of long-duration space travel." British scientists are preparing to launch a crew of microscopic worms - each ...

Most people who try to hitch a free flight hiding in a jet’s wheel-well die in the attempt, like the person whose body was discovered on Christmas Eve after a flight from Chicago landed on Maui. But ...

Shortly after four astronauts returned from their trip around the Moon, a crew of tiny space travelers were already on the move. Scientists sent microscopic worms to the International Space Station ...

Nematodes have been spotted forming writhing towers of tiny worms in the wild for the first time, according to a report in the journal Current Biology. The bizarre behavior had previously only been ...