Worms May Hold Clues to Neurological Disorders
This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.
Basiru Leigh peers into a microscope in the lab of Oliver Hobert of Columbia University in NY. Leigh is examining mutant ground worms from a species known as C. elegans.
"There! You see?" he exclaimed. "They are moving abnormally — in a circle instead of a U-shape." This uncoordinated movement is a symptom of the worms' motor neuron disease; Leigh is trying to find the cause.
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