{"id":431700,"date":"2018-01-23T09:36:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=43427963328575ab87afce7475fa8ca1"},"modified":"2018-01-23T09:36:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T13:36:49","slug":"survival-mode-in-a-tiny-worms-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=431700","title":{"rendered":"Survival mode in a tiny worm&#8217;s brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, are tiny worms with tiny brains\u2014their whole bodies are the width of a pencil tip and contain only 302 neurons. These nematodes live out their two-week-long lifespans in rotting vegetation, eating bacteria, and avoiding predators. However, C. elegans does not always live such a simplistic lifestyle. Under environmental stress\u2014such as when overcrowding leads to lack of food\u2014these creatures can switch into survival mode, halting aging for months and attempting to hitch a ride to a new location by attaching to other animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caenorhabditis elegans, or C. elegans, are tiny worms with tiny brains&mdash;their whole bodies are the width of a pencil tip and contain only 302 neurons. These nematodes live out their two-week-long lifespans in rotting vegetation, eating bacteria, and avoiding predators. However, C. elegans does not always live such a simplistic lifestyle. Under environmental stress&mdash;such as when overcrowding leads to lack of food&mdash;these creatures can switch into survival mode, halting aging for months and attempting to hitch a ride to a new location by attaching to other animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431701,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431700\/revisions\/431701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}