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i find this not only refreshing but but at some level astounding nature welcome back to the Nature. Nature.

Welcome back to the Nature podcast.

This week, creating unnatural proteins.

Plus how young worm mothers may hold the answer to a wriggly riddle.

This is the nature podcast for November the 30th, 2017. I'm Adam Levy.

And I'm Charmany Bundell.

There's a species of worm that has an almost celebrity status in biology. That worm is Sennorabditis elegans, or C.Elegans to its friends.

See elegans is the go-to model for understanding basic properties of animals, in part because

it's pretty basic itself. But in spite of the reams of research that have been carried out on this

tiny worm, there are still some pretty big unanswered

questions. Worms with seemingly identical nature and nurture can have markedly different

traits. Marcos Perez has been tracking down the cause of this mysterious variation for his PhD.

I gave him a call to find out more.

See Elegance is actually one of the best understood animals on the planet.

And there's probably in the order of 5,000 to 10,000 people working on sea elegance worldwide.

So there's a huge number of papers and a really broad knowledge base.

And really the idea, I think, with choosing C. Elegans as a model organism in the

first place, was to have a very simple animal to try and have a complete understanding

of an animal, of an animal's development, of how the animal works and operates basically

on a molecular level. And just how complete is our understanding?

What kind of things do we already know about Cieligans?

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