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Mapping neuropeptides used for long-range, wireless communication

Published on 5 April, 2024

C&EN discusses recent research using the nematode worm C. elegans to examine wireless brain communications using neuropeptides. They include research led by Lidia Ripoll Sanchez in William Schafer’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, which resulted in the first map of the entire neuropeptide signalling network of C. elegans. More…