Globally, parasitic helminths afflict billions of people and die of resulting complications every year. Currently, no effective vaccines are available for human use against any of these parasitic worm...
Cockayne syndrome (CS) is a congenital syndrome characterized by growth and development, mental retardation, and premature aging. It is an autosomal recessive genetic disease that occurs in 2.5 cases ...
C.elegans is a saprophytic species that has been emerging as a standard model organism since the early 1960s. This species is useful in numerous fields, including developmental biology, neurobiology a...
Fluorescent proteins (FPs) such as green fluorescent protein (GFP), firstly isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria, are popular tools in C. elegans. They are genetically encoded markers which a...
C.elegans are the classical model system for studying small RNAs, some of which in can transfer information across generations. Prof. Oded Rechavi-led team at Tel Aviv University has discovered three rules that control transgenerational inheritance via small RNA molecules in C.elegans, challenging our traditional concepts regarding the limits of inheritance and evolution.
