Doing the worm…
Despite its small size (about one millimeter long), the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been used to study a wide range of “”https://www.nature.com/nrd/journal/v5/n5/full/nrd2031.html”>biological processes including apoptosis, cell signalling, cell cycle, cell polarity, gene regulation, metabolism, ageing and sex determination.” Which is pretty amazing, as it truly is a simple organism: the adult hermaphrodite has 959 somatic cells! Read more
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