LiveScience, January 25 2011.
The worms in microbiologist Marie-Anne Felix’s lab are feeling a little under the weather. It seems they’ve picked up a stomach virus. The virus is actually the first ever found to infect the nematode C. elegans, a carefully studied worm that scientists use for basic research.
Studying the sick worms will teach researchers how viruses interact with their hosts — which, in some cases such as HIV and influenza, are humans. Read More >