Worm's Early Warning System
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•Smelling Something Dangerous May Put The Immune System on High Alert
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Caenorhabditis elegans, a nematode, has a nose for danger that scientists are just beginning to understand.
The mere whiff of dangerous bacteria is enough to put the immune system of a roundworm on high alert.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley suspect that the pre-emptive response evolved to protect nematodes from lethal pathogens.
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