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The Origins of the Worm Field
Three of the last six Nobel Prizes have been given to C. elegans researchers. The worm is transparent, meaning underneath a typical microscope we can go in and look at its organs. Despite the fact that it is a microscopic nematode worm that only has 959 cells, 302 exactly of those cells are neurons.