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...also was the first to use the roundworm C. elegans to analyze complex biological processes. His more recent research has focused on cloning techniques and vertebrate genomics...
This month, Harvard researchers reported that it is in the brain of the roundworm that insulin-like signaling controls life span...
Ruvkun and other scientists choose to work with the laboratory roundworm, a tiny bacteria-eating soil-dweller, because the sequence of its entire genome is known and its 302-neuron nervous system has been described in detail...
...careful about generalizing extensively from observations in the roundworm," said Dr. Richard Weindruch, who studies aging in mice at the University of Wisconsin. "It's not clear to what extent these findings represent the situation in mammals...
Today, four years later, a total of 20 genomes have been fully decoded, 10 of them at TIGR. In December scientists at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., and at the Sanger Centre passed a new milestone by decoding the first animal genome, that of a tiny roundworm, Caenorhabditis elegans. At 97 million letters, C. elegans' genome is by far the most sophisticated ever sequenced. But if Venter's newly formed Celera (derived from the word celerity, which means swiftness) can pull it off, his proposal to shotgun the entire 3 billion-letter human genome in three years will make...