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  • 204820482839870102410249703149249232856PublicAssets/3252Green and yellow fluorescence mark the processes and cell bodies of some <i>C. elegans</i> neurons. Researchers have found that the strategies used by this tiny roundworm to control its motions are remarkably similar to those used by the human brain to command movement of our body parts. From a November 2011 University of Michigan <a href=http://www.ns.umich.edu/new/releases/20051-tiny-worms-change-direction-using-two-human-like-neural-circuits target="_blank">news release</a>.Shawn Xu, University of MichiganShawn Xu, University of MichiganPhotograph

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    Green and yellow fluorescence mark the processes and cell bodies of some C. elegans neurons. Researchers have found that the strategies used by this tiny roundworm to control its motions are remarkably similar to those used by the human brain to command movement of our body parts. From a November 2011 University of Michigan news release.

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