
Cori Bargmann on the Genetics of Transparent Worms, Supertasters and Cancer
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How to Study the Whole Brain and the Whole Animal
The worm, scenerabditis elegans is optically transparent. When you put it under a microscope and look at it, you can see every single cell in the animal. It's like that child's game where you have the where you can look into all the organs of a human body. We're actally looking into all the cells ma's body. And you can actually watch the brain. You can see different nerans turn on and off. But i remember those instinct things. There has to be some kind of genetics underlying this,. cause that's what innate behavior means. If there's a behavior that's shared by every individual in a species, ye, there's something
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