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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

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

The famed Stuxnet attack injected a formidable computer worm into Iran’s Natanz enrichment facility in 2009, destroying about 1,000 centrifuges.

From The Verge • Jan. 23, 2018

What was the power that turned the worm into a moth?

From "The City of Ember" by Jeanne DuPrau