This valuable study shows that an odorant that is typically thought of as a repellant actually activates both attractant and repellant olfactory neurons in C. elegans. Solid evidence is provided that ...

Despite being an everyday necessity, nutrition is something of a black box. We know that many plant-based foods are good for us, but we don't always know why.

The pathogen C. diff - the most common cause of health care-associated infectious diarrhea - can use a compound that kills ...

One of the simplest, most over-studied organisms in the world is the C. elegans nematode. For 13 years, a project called ...

A team of researchers has identified a mechanism that regulates the production of two different proteins from the same gene.