Elie Dolgin | Sep 1, 2009 | 2 min read
By Elie Dolgin C. elegans Physical Map, circa 1989 © Science Museum / Science & Society Picture Library By the 1980s, Sydney Brenner’s “worm project” was in full swing. Brenner and his crack team of researchers at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK, had already constructed a detailed genetic map of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and described the worm’s embryonic and nervous system development i