Interactions between electromagnetic radiation and biological systems

L Liu, B Huang, Y Lu, Y Zhao, X Tang, Y Shi - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Even though the bioeffects of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) have been extensively
investigated during the past several decades, our understandings of the bioeffects of EMR …

How Caenorhabditis elegans Senses Mechanical Stress, Temperature, and Other Physical Stimuli

MB Goodman, P Sengupta - Genetics, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Caenorhabditis elegans lives in a complex habitat in which they routinely experience large
fluctuations in temperature, and encounter physical obstacles that vary in size and …

Surgical applications of femtosecond lasers

SH Chung, E Mazur - Journal of biophotonics, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Femtosecond laser ablation permits non‐invasive surgeries in the bulk of a sample with
submicrometer resolution. We briefly review the history of optical surgery techniques and the …

The ecology of electricity and electroreception

SJ England, D Robert - Biological Reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electricity, the interaction between electrically charged objects, is widely known to be
fundamental to the functioning of living systems. However, this appreciation has largely …

Light-sensitive neurons and channels mediate phototaxis in C. elegans

A Ward, J Liu, Z Feng, XZS Xu - Nature neuroscience, 2008 - nature.com
Phototaxis behavior is commonly observed in animals with light-sensing organs. C. elegans,
however, is generally believed to lack phototaxis, as this animal lives in darkness (soil) and …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of non-ionizing electromagnetic fields on flora and fauna, Part 2 impacts: how species interact with natural and man-made EMF

BB Levitt, HC Lai, AM Manville - Reviews on Environmental Health, 2022 - degruyter.com
Ambient levels of nonionizing electromagnetic fields (EMF) have risen sharply in the last five
decades to become a ubiquitous, continuous, biologically active environmental pollutant …

Working with Worms: Caenorhabditis elegans as a Model Organism

PM Meneely, CL Dahlberg… - Current Protocols …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Since its introduction as a laboratory organism 50 years ago, the nematode worm
Caenorhabditis elegans has become one of the most widely used and versatile models for …

Magnetosensitive neurons mediate geomagnetic orientation in Caenorhabditis elegans

A Vidal-Gadea, K Ward, C Beron, N Ghorashian… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Many organisms spanning from bacteria to mammals orient to the earth's magnetic field. For
a few animals, central neurons responsive to earth-strength magnetic fields have been …

Chemistry and the Worm: Caenorhabditis elegans as a Platform for Integrating Chemical and Biological Research

SE Hulme, GM Whitesides - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This Review discusses the potential usefulness of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans as a
model organism for chemists interested in studying living systems. C. elegans, a 1 mm long …

A microfluidic platform for high-sensitivity, real-time drug screening on C. elegans and parasitic nematodes

JA Carr, A Parashar, R Gibson, AP Robertson… - Lab on a Chip, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper describes a new microfluidic platform for screening drugs and their dose
response on the locomotion behavior of free living nematodes and parasitic nematodes. The …