Embargoed to 2100, Thursday, December 10: A microscopic view of Caenorhabditis elegans, a humble nematode worm less than one millimetre long, which has aided scientists in unravelling the mystery of life. Spelling out all the genetic instructions that determine how the worm is made, is an enormous achievement. It took British and American scientists 15 years and cost more than 30 million. The creature has a "genome", or genetic codebook, containing 97 million chemical "letters". Some of these are arranged in sequences to form an estimated 20,000 genes, the instructions for making dif
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Embargoed to 2100, Thursday, December 10: A microscopic view of Caenorhabditis elegans, a humble nematode worm less than one millimetre long, which has aided scientists in unravelling the mystery of life. Spelling out all the genetic instructions that determine how the worm is made, is an enormous achievement. It took British and American scientists 15 years and cost more than 30 million. The creature has a "genome", or genetic codebook, containing 97 million chemical "letters". Some of these are arranged in sequences to form an estimated 20,000 genes, the instructions for making dif