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While the mechanics of the Medea element are still not well understood, scientists have recently investigated another example in the nematode worm, C. elegans.
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He tested his idea in a tiny nematode worm called Caenorhabditis elegans and, in 1994, published a paper showing how touch-receptor proteins are distributed around this worm.
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In 1972 Sydney Brenner, a biologist then at Cambridge University, decided to work out the connections of every cell in the nervous system of a small nematode worm called C. elegans.
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"Findings on the genetics of a particular nematode worm may not be directly relevant to the complex process of ageing as it happens in higher animals such as the human, " the association added.
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They discovered that the most closely related parasite to the Onchocerca volvulus worm - the O. ochengi nematode - died after the bacteria living in it were killed by an ordinary antibiotic treatment of tetracycline.
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