Dramatic scenes are played out under Ralf Sommer's microscope: his research object, the roundworm Pristionchus pacificus, bites another worm, tears open a hole in its side and devours…
150 years after Darwin's epochal 'On the Origin of Species' many questions about the molecular basis of evolution are still waiting for answers. How are signalling pathways changed…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, together with American colleagues, have decoded the genome of the Pristionchus pacificus nematode, thereby gaining…