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That same year, he was featured alongside Kevin Bacon in the zippy horror comedy “Tremors,” using a lasso to fool a man-eating worm into swallowing a makeshift pipe bomb.
From Washington Post ● May 13, 2022
But nothing about Hollywood is normal, and if you’ve been working there since you were a child, it’s bound to worm into you in ways that can prove hard to untangle.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Among Brenner’s most notable achievements was turning the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worm into a model system for human-disease research in the 1960s and 1970s, which sparked a new field of research.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 8, 2019
Nobel-prizewinning geneticist Sydney Brenner, who has died aged 92, sparked a new field of research when he turned the Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worm into a model system for research into human disease.
From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2019
What was the power that turned the worm into a moth?
From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau
