Can worms help us avoid death?

When people come they often assume that it is impossible to stop - the death of the body. Dying of the cells of the Earth's organisms is seen to be inevitable, but the truth is that it does not quite happen in the same way in different organisms. Scientists have for the first time detected an exception to the phenomenon of "rigor mortis", in which dead bodies become solid as a stone. It turns out that rigor mortis does not work with worms , just as the whale and other normal dying organisms on Earth do.

"What really struck us was the fact that rigor mortis begins with worms while they are still alive," explains molecular biologist Evgeni Galimov of University College London. In humans, death occurs when the heart stops beating and the brain stops functioning. But the physiological processes of standard death seem to be quite different in small roundworms Caenorhabditis elegans, and therefore hair death must obviously approach them differently. "We have found that standard death from cessation of blood circulation simply does not occur with Caenorhabditis elegans," Galimov explains. "These worms are so small that they do not need a bloodstream to get oxygen. Understanding the mechanism of death in them helps us to understand the differences with humans in humans and even eventually manage to avoid mortality in a particular class of patients, "the biologist concluded.