Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and their colleagues are unraveling the mechanisms behind a little-known marine worm that produces a dazzling bioluminescent display ...

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Scientists have engineered a worm with neurons that respond to light, making it a living bio-bot. Scientists at Harvard, The University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Massachusetts Medical ...

Jan. 11 (UPI) --Marine worms use ultraviolet light to tell what time of year it is and adapt their behavior accordingly. The phenomena, described in a new paper published Monday in the journal Nature ...

In this case, the team used them to directly control the movements of C. elegans, a tiny worm commonly used in lab studies. Two opsins were implanted into these worms – one, which originated in ...