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MUSCLE CONTROL: Researchers pinpoint how C. elegans (pictured) manages to expel food from its mouth.
The Science Behind How Roundworms Spit
By viewing countless hours of expectorating worms, researchers discover a unique way in which neurons control the movement of muscles.
The Science Behind How Roundworms Spit
The Science Behind How Roundworms Spit

By viewing countless hours of expectorating worms, researchers discover a unique way in which neurons control the movement of muscles.

By viewing countless hours of expectorating worms, researchers discover a unique way in which neurons control the movement of muscles.

physiology, cell & molecular biology, neuroscience

a drawing of black goggles receiving a beam of light than is then transmitted to an eyeball. from the retina there is a zoom-in of blue and purple cells and purple viruses
Blind Patient Recovers Partial Vision with Optogenetics
Alejandra Manjarrez, PhD | May 24, 2021 | 4 min read
After receiving an intraocular injection of the gene for a light-sensitive protein, a 58-year-old man diagnosed with the neurodegenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa was able to locate objects on a table using engineered goggles.
Blood Transplants from Active Mice Give Brain Boost to Others
Lisa Winter | Jul 12, 2020 | 2 min read
The researchers behind the results propose that an exercise-induced protein in circulation is responsible for the benefits.
How Evolution Made the Highveld Mole Rat Impervious to Ant Stings
Shawna Williams | Sep 1, 2019 | 5 min read
Researchers identify changes to a pain receptor and to an ion channel that appear to enable the rodents to colonize otherwise inhospitable burrows.
Prenatal Exposure to Cannabis Affects the Developing Brain
Andrew Scheyer | Jan 1, 2019 | 10+ min read
Children born to moms who smoked or ingested marijuana during pregnancy suffer higher rates of depression, hyperactivity, and inattention.
FDA Report on BPA’s Health Effects Raises Concerns
Ashley Yeager | Feb 27, 2018 | 2 min read
The pre-peer review assessment finds the compound has “minimal effects,” but endocrinologists and others say key data have yet to come out.
Exercise-Induced Muscle Factor Promotes Memory
Ruth Williams | Jun 23, 2016 | 3 min read
Running releases an enzyme that is associated with memory function in mice and humans.
 
Interview: Speaking of Memory
Edyta Zielinska | Oct 1, 2011 | 4 min read
Considered a renegade by his peers, Nobel Prize-winner Eric Kandel used a simple model to probe the neural circuitry of memory.
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