The team examined live embryos of C. elegans using two instruments invented at the MBL: the centrifuge polarizing microscope (CPM), developed by the late MBL Distinguished Scientist Shinya Inoué ...

This is a microscope image of the worm species C. elegans. Certain neurons involved in dopamine signaling are shown in red, while certain other neurons, including those involved in sensing smell ...

A staple in laboratories worldwide, C. elegans is “an experimental dream,” said one scientist. Science | These Tiny Worms Account for at Least 4 Nobel Prizes ...

Tim Sherry's childhood love for building Lego sets never faded. Instead, it evolved into a passion for building high-powered microscopes in his work at UCLA’s student-run Elegant Mind club.

The goal was to create a wiring diagram—a map of all 302 neurons in the C. elegans nervous system ... more powerful microscopes and digital cameras. The male C. elegans connectome also features ...

Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism ...

In actio optophysiological analyses reveal functional diversification of dopaminergic neurons in the nematode C. elegans. Scientific Reports , 2016; 6: 26297 DOI: 10.1038/srep26297 Cite This Page : ...

C. elegans under a microscope. / Photo By ГП – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikicommons. I eventually made it to the beating heart of Boston’s thriving worm subculture: an early-morning ...

Nematodes tiny yet mighty form wriggling towers to survive and travel as a team. Long thought to exist only in labs, ...

Researchers began by finding unique combinations of genes that, when artificially attached to fluorescent protein tags, would cause 35 different small groups of neurons to glow under a microscope.

The worms are C. elegans, tiny roundworms common in soil and research labs around the world. Each of the 959 cells in the animals' transparent, 1 millimeter-long bodies has been identified, named ...