Caenorhabditis elegans (C.elegans)
I’m sure like all of you with young kids, I don’t get enough sleep. I don’t need much naturally but an extra hour or so here and there would be great!  The roundworm C. elegans, a staple of laboratory research, may be key in unlocking one of the central biological mysteries: why do we sleep?
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report in this week’s advanced online edition of Nature that the round worm has a sleep-like state, joining most of the animal kingdom in displaying this physiology. This research has implications for explaining the …read more