The worms will easily devour all your vegetable and fruit scraps including peels and apple cores. Feeding your worms vegetative scraps from the kitchen will keep them happy but like any other type ...

Caenorhabditis elegans exhibit either social or solitary feeding on bacterial lawns, but the neural mechanisms that control this behavior have been unclear. Two papers in October 31 Nature, show that ...

Upon infection, the C. elegans worm reshuffles the roles of brain cells and flips the functions of some of the chemicals it ...

A WOMAN almost died after eating seafood contaminated with worms that burrowed in her brain. The 60-year-old turned up to hospital with a fever that had lasted three days and severe ...

New research reveals how the simple nervous system of C. elegans worms can dramatically reconfigure itself to survive infection.