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C. elegans research has contributed a lot to science, so much so that it has helped win three Nobel prizes:
2002 & 2006 in physiology or medicine and 2008 in Chemistry
#WhyWorms
One big area of study in C. elegans is neurological developement. Since worms contain a reasonably complex nervous systems (with ~300 neurons) we can understand how it grows and changes over the life of a worm and apply this knowledge to other animals (like humans) #WhyWorms
Worms are quick to grow, laying eggs 65 hours post hatching, and living for 2 weeks. However, if when they hatch there is no food around, they can live for 4 months. Then, once they’ve found food, they grow up as if nothing happened living 2 weeks after that. #WhyWorms
One thing made possible by their transparency is that the entire ”cell lineage” of C. elegans has been traced. The cell lineage is where each cell in an adult worm comes from in the embryo, and how they grow/move through development. #WhyWorms (from @edlyn_MTL)
Another advantage to freezing C. elegans is you can always return to the same stock you began with - if something goes wrong with your worm stock after maintaining them for a long time, you can simply defrost a new tube. #WhyWorms
One huge advantage C. elegans has over other animal models is their ability to be frozen alive! You can put C. elegans in a -80C freezer and thaw them years later. This allows for storage instead of having to constantly feed and maintain them. #WhyWorms (from @monicazwu)
C. elegans are transparent so you can see all their different types of cells and organs while it’s alive. It also means that when you introduce a colourful fluorescent marker, to denote certain cell types, you can see it really clearly. #WhyWorms (from @SDreamchaser08)
Albert, grad student in Anne's Lab, is working on a strain that was frozen before he was born. #WhyWorms
One huge advantage C. elegans has over other animal models is their ability to be frozen alive! You can put C. elegans in a -80C freezer and thaw them years later. This allows for storage instead of having to constantly feed and maintain them. #WhyWorms (from @monicazwu)
One huge advantage C. elegans has over other animal models is their ability to be frozen alive! You can put C. elegans in a -80C freezer and thaw them years later. This allows for storage instead of having to constantly feed and maintain them. #WhyWorms (from @monicazwu)
If you have some ideas on #WhyWorms are such a great model be sure to share them with the twitterverse and I’ll try to draw some for the collection! :)
Along with not needing much space, C. elegans are also really cheap to feed. Since they subsist on a diet of bacteria. #WhyWorms
When most people think of “worms” they imagine big earth worms, but C. elegans are actually quite small, growing to about 1mm in length. Because this animal doesn’t need a lot of space to grow, you can have over 100 worms living comfortably on a 3cm wide plate. #WhyWorms
@AGCharlesworth It was hard to narrow down to just one, but: you can freeze them! You can put C. elegans in the -80C freezer, thaw them YEARS later and some will still be alive! No more stress with maintaining/accidentally losing strains and a huge advantage over other animal models #whyworms
I regularly harvest a million worms for my small RNA experiments :) #WhyWorms
Each single hermaphrodite lays approximately 300 eggs. So even if you start with one worm you can expand the number you have to thousands in just over a week! This allows large scale experiments to be done on such a small organism. #WhyWorms
Each single hermaphrodite lays approximately 300 eggs. So even if you start with one worm you can expand the number you have to thousands in just over a week! This allows large scale experiments to be done on such a small organism. #WhyWorms
Unlike most animals, C. elegans are predominantly hermaphrodites - which produce both eggs and sperm. Thus, they can reproduce by themselves (or with the odd male). The benefit of this characteristic is that you only need one worm to produce many offspring. #WhyWorms
When most people think of “animals” they typically only think of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. But C elegans are animals too! Which means we have a lot more in common with humans than some might think. #WhyWorms
Join me this week in sharing some reasons you use C elegans as a system with #WhyWorms and I might draw your fact in a cute worm cartoon!
Hey Worm Scientists! In honor of Dr Brenner’s birthday next week, I hope to spread the word on why we C. elegans make such a great model organism! So for the next week I’ll be posting some basic facts aimed at non-scientists with #whyworms
I hope you join me!
Hey Worm Scientists! In honor of Dr Brenner’s birthday next week, I hope to spread the word on why we C. elegans make such a great model organism! So for the next week I’ll be posting some basic facts aimed at non-scientists with #whyworms
I hope you join me!
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