<i>C. elegans</i> (IMAGE)

University of Colorado at Boulder

<i>C. elegans</i>

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The discovery of a novel cellular "switch" in the popular laboratory research worm, C. elegans by a University of Colorado at Boulder team may provide researchers with a new means of triggering programmed cell death in humans to treat disease.

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