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What a tiny, wiggling worm can teach us about cancer
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What a tiny, wiggling worm can teach us about cancer

by Catarina Chagas, Queen’s University Caenorhabditis elegans. Credit: Wikipedia One would think a transparent, tiny—about one millimeter in length—organism could have difficulty catching anyone’s attention. The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans), however, has been in the biological research spotlight for decades. Scientists first proposed the worm as a model for studying development biology and neurobiology...