2012 Computational and Systems Neuroscience Meeting

Highlights from the annual meeting, held Feb. 23 – 26 in Salt Lake City, Utah

How the worm bends

SALT LAKE CITY—Each section of a squirming worm’s body follows the leader, a study presented February 25 at the Computational and Systems Neuroscience meeting shows. Quan Wen of Harvard University and his colleagues confirmed a long-held theory about how some worms wiggle by rigging up a device that could monitor and control the undulations of C.