Worms Produce Surprise Insight Into Human Fever

... Give or take a few dozen trillions, a human adult has about 70 trillion cells. An adult Caenorhabditis elegans roundworm has exactly 959 cells.Yet we have an awful lot in common, says Alejandro Aballay of Duke University, who has been exploring two highly conserved cell-signaling pathways for innate immunity shared by worms and humans. [click link for full article] ...