In the world of roundworms (Caenorhabditis elegans), the title, long-term observer of death, belongs to geneticist and developmental biologist H. Robert Horvitz, at the Massachusetts Institute of ...

In the current study, researchers used live imaging of microscopic cells to observe the formation of eggs inside the gonad of the model roundworm, C. elegans. They saw that when oocytes don't make the ...

* Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas ...

Analysis of downstream pathways of important enzymatic biomolecules (e.g., kinases and proteases) that have multiple substrates has always been a difficult challenge. Targets of these enzymes could be ...

Entosis in breast cancer cells occurs in the same way as in C. elegans worm development. The arrowheads indicate the lobes that will separate from the entotic cells. Summary Researchers have found ...

A research team led by the University of Colorado at Boulder has discovered a previously unknown cellular "switch" that may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death, ...