Posted on 01/20/2022 4:33:20 AM PST by Scarlett156
Javier Apfeld approached the question like a worm detective. Except, instead of solving a wiggly creature's murder, the biologist was trying to understand why worms didn't die, despite a deadly toxin's common presence in the environments in which they live.
The verdict: The worms know how to detect and dodge the chemical threat. A trick they use, as Apfeld and colleagues describe in a new paper published in PLOS Pathogens, is that they know how to get by with a little help from their food.
And, says Apfeld, an assistant professor of biology at Northeastern, understanding the worms' methods could help us understand how other creatures—including humans—that face that same toxic threat may stymie that chemical foe.
The worm in question is called Caenorhabditis elegans, and it's a type of microscopic roundworm often used as a model organism to study human diseases. One of the biggest threats to its existence is a common substance: hydrogen peroxide.
Hydrogen peroxide can be fatal for all kinds of organisms to encounter.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
“ Let others see if they can wrangle this dragon then clean up the mess. I know nothing. I’m going to Hawaii for the weekend.”
Phooey. I should have put that in quotes That is attributed to my sweet silly cuz and all the live who are turning their heads at this and the Biden disaster they helped foster
Wear sunscreen.
I’m working paying mortgage getting things done. Taking scare of fam and Covid patients. I might go to the Jersey shore in July for three days and that would be to coincide with some family business there.
If I do I’ll go to the beach late PM and absorb some vit d
So, the thing about Hawaii was just a lie. I see.
No. My leftis cousin who was so certain trump was terrible and would start a world war is now, now that Biden is showing up to be a disaster, she is now claiming to know nothing as she doesn’t watch news anymore and is off to Hawaii for Tge weekend. Can’t talk now.
I don’t want to talk about my leftist cousin. There’s nothing funny about it. :(
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