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One might think that a tiny transparent creature about 1mm long would hardly attract anyone's attention
How does a single cell become a multicellular organism? What are the genes that control cell division and cell movement? Developmental biologist Ian Chin-Sang has been working to ask these and similar questions
Nematodes and humans share 40 percent of their genetic makeup, which means that 40 percent of human genes are homologous or structurally similar to the worm's DNA
For the past few years, Dr.
Dr Chin-Sang explained: "We study how worms develop and apply this knowledge to understanding what happens during cell division, which leads to cancer
Although nematodes don't get cancer like humans do
Dr.
"We think of a cell as a molecular machine that needs to function properly
Scientists can manipulate C.
current project
In addition to studying cell division and its link to cancer, Dr.
"This could be very important for designing new drugs," said Dr.
Another ongoing project, funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), aims to elucidate how embryonic cells change their shape and fold into three-dimensional forms
