The researchers also are developing protein-network maps for other organisms, including a yeast cell and Caenorhabditis elegans, a tiny worm with some 19, 000 genes, about the same number as humans.

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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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From what I understood, there is a species in Halo known as the Hunters which are made up of thousands of tiny, orange worm-like creatures.

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Cynthia Kenyon , a researcher at the University of California in San Francisco, found a life-extending gene in C. elegans, a tiny species of worm.

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