C.elegans (Caenorhabditis elegans) is a free-living, transparent nematode (roundworm), about 1 mm in length, which naturally lives in temperate soil environments. C. elegans is a self-fertilizing ...

The key to living a long life is a lot less glamorous than sipping from the Fountain of Youth. Stress, starvation, and other hostile living conditions are actually the secret ingredients for longer ...

In a study published in the journal Developmental Cell, a cocktail of pharmaceutical drugs were recently found to extend the life of the microscopic worm, Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans). The ...

In June 2019, I, along with my lab mates, attended the 22nd International C. elegans Conference held at UCLA in Los Angeles. It was an amazing experience and opportunity for my graduate research ...

Aging-US published "Sulforaphane promotes C. elegans longevity and healthspan via DAF- 16/DAF-2 insulin/IGF-1 signaling" which reported that the broccoli-derived isothiocyanate sulforaphane inhibits ...

New research in C. elegans from scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) helps explain how changes in the parents’ lysosomes that promote longevity are transferred to their offspring.

A wave of spatial transcriptomics studies has produced gene-expression atlases that span entire organs and whole organisms, ...

C. elegans pictured in normal color conditions under a microscope. Credit: Jeremy Vicencio, Nadia Halidi/Centro de Regulación Genómica The researchers observed the same effects on health span, the ...

The human brain is a beast of a computer, but before we can emulate that we’ll need to start with something simpler. C. elegans is a worm whose basic brain of only 302 neurons has been digitized. Now ...

“This study is very exciting,” said Yun Zhang of Harvard who studies learning in C. elegans but was not involved in the present work. “Imprinting is a form of learning widely observed in many animals ...