#roundworm

Eggs’ Essential Net

A network of proteins protect the cell nuclei from collapse-inducing forces during egg cell production – oogenesis – in the roundworm C. elegans model organism – insight for maintenance of mammalian egg cell integrity

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Chenshu Liu and colleagues

California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, July 2023

When I was in highschool, I was in love with the game Plague Inc. I made humanized versions of the different infectors (Bacteria, Virus, Nanovirus, etc). I didn’t do all of them, and Neurax Worm was one I really wanted to do but never did. So I figured for this prompt I finally do humanized Neurax Worm and make her the controller of parasitic worms.

Her hair is strand like because it’s based on what a hookworm looks like when not under a microscope. The veins in her are what it looks like when you have a worm in your body, th tendrils for the neurax worm and what it uses to hook on to people’s brains, and she’s blind (based on what happens if a worm infects your eye and burrows inside it).