Posted on 07/13/2022 6:58:54 AM PDT by devane617
A team co-led by a City University of Hong Kong (CityU) neuroscientist has identified a key mechanism of a biological clock that ensures roundworms stay regular by defecating at steady intervals.
The defecation step is under the timed control of a nerve cell located in the worm's head. This cell fires a nerve impulse, or burst of electrical discharge, every 45 seconds or so. Each impulse is immediately transmitted along the worm through a nerve fiber that contacts a nerve cell in the tail. This cell then fires an impulse with the near-synchronized impulse from the head nerve cell that stimulates the lower-gut muscles to expel feces.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
Well, at least they are keeping busy................
Useless information, supposed to drive me imagination. I can’t get me no, satisfaction. 🙂
Yeah...it’s not like they’re leading normal lives in communist China
What these scientists are doing is looking for the simplest of models to decode how a biological clock works.
After the simplest (a worm) clock has been figured out then they start studying more complex organisms.
Kind of like a kid learning to count, then add and subtract, then multiply and divide, then calculus, statistics, etc.
That is a good explanation and I agree—small steps.
Thank goodness for ivermectin pony paste. Worm free me.
We're certainly getting a lot of that these days--like the January 6 stuff.
Now you know why there is no superhero named “Round Worm Man”. Yes, he would have the proportional strength of a round worm, and could regenerate his whole body from just a single remaining piece, but the whole defecating every 45 seconds thing runs afoul of the Comics Code Authority.
That’s gaslighting information that we are getting a lot of these days, and many people fall hook, line, and sinker for it, sadly.
An identical cell is found in the brains of Prog Leftist Democrat Cult Members.
It controls Speech.
You are new here. Only stupid jokes can be posted on science threads.
Hands down the weirdest thread title ever!
Well, he could be the first superhero sponsored by Depends.
And Biden could be the first supervillain..., oh, never mind!
Well God forbid roundworms get constipation. I wonder how much borrowed US money went into studying this particular jaunt
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