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In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite | Andrew Brown

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The fascinating story of the quest to decode how a creature works in its entirety. A tiny transparent nematode worm only half a millimeter long has been the subject of intensive study by a select group of biologists since the early 1960s culminating in the award of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to the main protagonists. The voyage of discovery has been arguably one of the most important quests in modern biology and has stimulated much of modern thinking about genetics, development and neurobiology.

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In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite | Andrew Brown

I've seen this book two days in a row in different contexts, which is always a weird moment. First I posted about entropy making me anxious after reading Katie Mack's book; someone linked this poem: https://www.tor.com/2011/04/03/sonnet-against-entropy/

In the comments the original context of the poem is mentioned, and thus Andrew Brown's book.

Now C. elegans got mentioned in Borrowed Time by Sue Armstrong, and she mentioned the book!

A sign?

shanaqui The poem is by John M. Ford, by the way! 3y

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