Worms, Life and Death

摘要

I never expected to spend most of my life studying worms. However, when it became time for me to choose an area for my postdoctoral research, I was intrigued both with the problems of neurobiology and with the approaches of genetics. Having heard that a new "genetic organism" with a remarkably simple nervous system was being explored by Sydney Brenner--the microscopic soil nematode Caenorhabditis elegans--I decided to join Sydney in his efforts.