David Biron’s lab contains arrays of microscopes in darkened rooms, all focused on tiny worms in various stages of development. These worms have cameras trained on them day and night, generating tens ...

In 1963, on a hunch, a South African biologist named Sydney Brenner decided to study a species of worms named C. elegans. The worms turned out to be the perfect lab animal. They were simple creatures ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osedax is considered an ecosystem engineer. Despite not having a mouth, anus, or digestive tract, their roots bore into bones from ...

Worms don't wiggle when they have Alzheimer's disease. Yet something helped worms with the disease hold onto their wiggle in Professor Jessica Tanis's lab at the University of Delaware. In solving the ...