Learned behaviors and memories can be genetically passed down for multiple generations

Researches by a Princeton University-led team have observed that C. elegans can transmit complex learned avoidance behaviors from parent to progeny via eggs and sperm cells, giving the offspring an inherited mechanism for surviving dangerous conditions.

DISCOVER-Seq help to reslove CRISPR off-targets

A breakthrough of creating a new technology called DISCOVER-Seq.

How to prepare NGM (Nematode Growth Medium)?

l 2g peptone, 16g agar and 2.4 g NaCl placed in a clean 1000ml glass flask, l Add 20ml 1M phosphate buffer added, with distilled water mixed to 800ml (the mixture is the initial culture medium).l H...

Genetic variation affects aging rate and mating ability of C. elegans

According to a study published in Nature, titled Genetic variation in glia–neuron signalling modulates ageing rate, the genetic variation of a newly discovered signaling pathway affects the aging rat...

C. elegans demonstrates new way to study aging

Professor Gilula Chair of Scripps Research and senior research author Dr. Benjamin Cravatt declare a new proposal of life extension pathway by interfering/suppressing of specific enzyme-associated pat...

Soil nematode abundance and functional group composition at a global scale

Nematodes are the most abundant animals on the blue planet, filling all trophic levels in the soil food web. Knowing where these tiny worms live matters because nematodes play a critical role in the c...

C.elegans might be the key to answer how long will we live?

C. elegans, is one of the best organisms for the study of life science.

Nature: First complete nervous wiring diagram of nervous system in C. elegans

In early July 2019, Nature published maps of all the connections in the nervous system of both sexes (male and hermaphrodite) of the adult C. elegans. By focusing on C. elegans's brains, researche...

The way to prevent deafness in Beethoven

“We developed a better, as more precise version for CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing to prevent the hearing loss. It allows us to selectively shut down the defective copy of the gene Tmc1, which is the disea...

Nature: CCR5 mutation will shorten life-span

Gene editing infants may be at risk of early death. In Novemver 2018, Chinese scientist HE Jiankui announced the birth of two babies born with heritable alters to their embryo genomes with the CRISPR-...