A map of the worm: First detailed anatomical atlas of C. elegans for use in the lab
COLD SPRING HARBOR, N.Y. To meet the demands of biologists who work with the model worm C. elegans in the laboratory, a new anatomical atlas has just been published. It is the most detailed and comprehensive atlas of C. elegans in print to date and will be an essential laboratory reference...Muscle deterioration in patients with lung disease seen connected to CO2
...eir research appeared in a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in the US. They used the worm C. elegans , in which many basic processes are discovered, to study its response to induced elevated carbon dioxide levels. They found that levels exceeding 9% (...Worms Control Lifespan at High Temperatures, UCSF Study Finds
...SF. She is renowned for her ongoing research on C. elegans (Caenorhabditis elegans) and aging. Humans and ot...nk between cold- and warm-blooded animals. C. elegans has been known to have thermosensory or heat-sensi...s propose that this thermosensory system allows C. elegans to reduce the effect that warm temperature would o...Worm provides clues about preventing damage caused by low-oxygen during stroke, heart attack
...w experiments, Crowder's team manipulated genes in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans to alter the organism's sensitivity to a low-oxygen environment. They did ...erapies will involve several steps. First, Crowder plans to move beyond C. elegans to see whether these techniques also will protect neurons in mammals. "...Researchers gain new insight on wonder of cell division
...e of the journal Science -- come from basic research using Caenorhabditis elegans (roundworm) embryos. The discovery provides more basic insight than immedia...s branched microfilaments assembly came as a surprise, Bowerman said. C. elegans is used in many genetics research laboratories to discover basic requiremen...A new world of research possibilities with 'Emerging Model Organisms'
...and from cricket and finch to quail, snail, and tomato. Until recently, a small number of organismssuch as E. coli , fruit fly, Arabidopsis , C. elegans , and mousehave been the primary focus of research in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. But in the last few years, due in part to techn...New research on mutation in yeast can enhance understanding of human diseases
...es cerevisiae had a very high rate of mutation from generation to generation. Its patterns of mutation, however, turned out to be unique. While C. elegans mutations were largely the result of inserting or deleting base pairs of DNA, yeast's patterns of mutation were characterized by changing one base pai...Weight Gain May Not Be Based Just on What You Eat
...ortant to realize that there is a major contributing factor to body weight that is genetic." The new findings, based on research with so-called C. elegans worms, is published in the June issue of the journal Cell Metabolism . Ashrafi and his colleagues noted that, while the worms are obviously small...Study identifies mechanism underlying multidrug resistance in fungi
...nt fungal infections to standard antifungal therapy, says Wagner. To further investigate the relevance of their findings, the researchers used a C. elegans roundworm model system recently developed by co-author Eleftherios Mylonakis, MD, PhD, of MGH Infectious Disease to study fungal pathogens. They fo...Open Biosystems' Open Access RNAi Program Continues to Gain Momentum Worldwide
...he entire human and mouse genomes, the RNAi Consortium human and mouse lentiviral shRNA libraries as well as RNAi collections targeting Drosophila, C. elegans and Arabidopsis Thaliana. Participation in the Open Access RNAi program provides researchers the most complete and flexible access to their choice of ...Pinhead-size worms + robot = new antibiotics
...utomated with a robot to test the effects of 37,000 potential drugs on C. elegans (a type of worm) infected with E. faecalis (a type of bacteria). That bacterium causes life-threatening infections in humans. C. elegans are tiny nematode worms that are widely used in scientific research. The t...Nematode courting caught on camera
...regulating tail muscles to achieve an exploratory embrace. The video shows an intimate moment between two nematodes of the species Caenorhabditis elegans . As the hermaphrodite does not actively co-operate in mating, it is up to the male to make and maintain the necessary contact. He presses the front s...Recruitment of reproductive features into other cell types may underlie extended lifespan in animals
... mutations known to extend the lifespan of the C. elegans roundworm induce 'mortal' somatic cells to expres... and is receiving advance online release. " C. elegans mutants with extreme longevity accomplish this fe...n the development, longevity and metabolism of C. elegans , a tiny worm broadly used as a model for studying...ASBMB Annual Meeting to feature talks on the biochemistry of aging
...n simply cannot be expected to work in mammals. Kennedy and his group examined this issue by carefully analyzing age-related genes in yeast and the C. elegans worm, two organisms that diverged over a billion years ago. They found a statistically significant connection in the genes and pathways that affect ag...To swim or to crawl: For the worm it's a no brainer
...ty of Leeds has shown, for the first time, that C. elegans worms crawl and swim using the same gait, overturn...lications for biologists and geneticists using C. elegans for their research. Until recently scientists hav... of individual genes may be more apparent." C. elegans , a tiny free-living worm, was the very first anim...Forget the antioxidants? McGill researchers cast doubt on role of free radicals in aging
...causation. But now this theory really is in the way of progress." Hekimi and postdoctoral fellow Jeremy Van Raamsdonk studied mutant Caenorhabditis elegans worms. They progressively disabled five genes responsible for producing a group of proteins called superoxide dismutases (SODs), which detoxify one of...Studies offer guide as protein interaction mapping comes of age
... The third study uses the quality control framework from the first study to compile a new, expanded map of the interactome of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), a scientific favorite whose cells have roughly the same number of genes as human cells do. The previous version of the map was assembled...Key to 'curing' obesity may lie in worms that destroy their own fat: McGill researchers
...an Institutes of Health Research. In lean times, a normal Caenorhabditis elegans worm goes into a form of suspended animation called "dauer" that slows its ...ll division and reproduction." Unlike other "hibernating" organisms, C. elegans maintains a degree of mobility during dauer by stocking up on energy in the...Deprived of a sense of smell, worms live longer
...ant medications made the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans live longer. But until now, they didn't quite kno...nd Daniel Schneider. Kornfeld's lab studies C. elegans because they live only about two to three weeks, ... that some human anticonvulsants slow aging in C. elegans . Now, further investigating the effect of one ...Worm genome offers clues to evolution of parasitism
... well known in scientific circles: Caenorhabditis elegans has long been used as a model organism in researc...ternational research collaboration. Unlike C. elegans , which lives in the dirt, P. pacificus makes it... is substantially larger and more complex than C. elegans . It has nearly 170,000 chemical bases and contain...Novel drug discovery tool could identify promising new therapies for Parkinson's disease
... two cyclic peptides. Guy Caldwell, Ph.D., and Kim Caldwell, Ph.D., professors of biology at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa developed this C. elegans model, and performed the testing. The researchers have not yet determined why the cyclic peptides are protective. They found that the cyclic peptid...Growing old together: Yeast, worms and people may age by similar mechanisms
... the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans , to identify genes that may regulate aging in humans. Nematodes and human...ys a similar role in people. The researchers compiled a set of 276 C. elegans genes that were known to modulate aging, and scanned the yeast genome for ...In vivo visualization of alternative splicing
...gineered a transgenic alternative splicing reporter system to monitor the developmentally regulated switching of let-2 alternative splicing in live C. elegans worms. The splicing of let-2 changes during the lifetime of the worm: Embryos and early larvae express exon 9, while adult worms express exon 10. By...Mechanism for the in-vivo transport of siRNA
...nterference, in which double-stranded RNA switches genes off efficiently and specifically. The scientists used the nematode (roundworm) Caenorhabditis elegans to study this. Subsequently, however, considerable problems arose in the attempt to transfer the strategy used by Mello and Fire to vertebrates. In pa...Transformation of Nematodes With the Helios Gene Gun
... PREPARATION OF ADULT HERMAPHRODITE C. elegans AND COTTON RAT PARASITE L. SIGMODONTIS FOR MICROPARTICLE BOMBARDMENT C. elegans is cultivated on NGM agar plates (Brenner, 1974). ...n ice (to reduce their motility). In this state C. elegans could be used for microparticle bombard...RNA Interference and Gene Silencing: History and Overview
... came from work in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans . Seven years ago, researchers Guo and Ke...oth sense and antisense strands into C. elegans (10 ). This injec...ed to express dsRNA homologous to the C. elegans unc-22 gene. Surprisingly, these worms...In Situ Pan-Caspase Assay Kit from CHEMICON
Description:...ls and result in the cleavage of protein substrates, causing the disassembly of the cell. Caspases have been identified in organisms ranging from C. elegans to humans. The mammalian caspases play distinct roles in apoptosis and inflammation. In apoptosis, caspases are responsible for proteolytic cleavage...In Situ Pan-Caspase Assay Kit, Sulforhodamine from CHEMICON
Description:...ls and result in the cleavage of protein substrates, causing the disassembly of the cell. Caspases have been identified in organisms ranging from C. elegans to humans. The mammalian caspases play distinct roles in apoptosis and inflammation. In apoptosis, caspases are responsible for proteolytic cleavage...