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Switch Master: A Profile of Barbara Meyer
Switch Master: A Profile of Barbara Meyer
Working with bacteriophages and nematodes, the University of California, Berkeley, molecular biologist uncovered a role for genetic switches in early development.
Switch Master: A Profile of Barbara Meyer
Switch Master: A Profile of Barbara Meyer

Working with bacteriophages and nematodes, the University of California, Berkeley, molecular biologist uncovered a role for genetic switches in early development.

Working with bacteriophages and nematodes, the University of California, Berkeley, molecular biologist uncovered a role for genetic switches in early development.

C. elegans, genetics & genomics

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C. elegans Healthier Without Longevity Gene
Chia-Yi Hou | Jul 17, 2019 | 2 min read
Worms with the reproduction-related TCER-1 gene deleted could fight off infection for longer and survived better when exposed to heat and radiation.
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Worm Parents Pass on Behaviors Epigenetically to Offspring
Katarina Zimmer | Jun 7, 2019 | 7 min read
Two research groups demonstrate that in Caenorhabditis elegans, behavioral traits can be passed down through the germline to future generations, even though they aren’t hard-wired.
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Sydney Brenner, mRNA Discoverer, Dies
Kerry Grens | Apr 5, 2019 | 3 min read
One of the foremost molecular biologists of the 20th century, the Nobel laureate established C. elegans as a model organism, mapping its genes and development.
John Sulston, Human Genome Project Leader, Dies
Kerry Grens | Mar 11, 2018 | 2 min read
The biologist earned a Nobel Prize in 2002 for his work on C. elegans.
Epigenetic Inheritance in Nematodes
Catherine Offord | Jul 16, 2017 | 2 min read
The memory of a temperature spike can persist for as many as 14 generations in C. elegans.
Questions Over C. elegans Life Span Factors
Catherine Offord | Jun 1, 2016 | 2 min read
A recent paper challenges earlier findings that germline factors expressed in normal body cells influence life span in C. elegans.
Expanding ENCODE
Jyoti Madhusoodanan | Aug 27, 2014 | 3 min read
Latest Encyclopedia of DNA Elements data enable researchers to compare genome regulation across species. 
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine 2002
David Bruce(davidb@thescientisteurope.com) | Oct 6, 2002 | 3 min read
Sydney Brenner, John Sulston, and Robert Horvitz awarded the 2002 Nobel Prize.
Going Strong at 75
Horace Freeland Judson | Mar 17, 2002 | 10+ min read
Roger Kornberg, one of Arthur's boys, has a Sydney Brenner story. We all do, but his is more telling than most.
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