In miniature test tubes in biologist Ryan Baugh’s lab at Duke, thousands of tiny wriggling worms — each one a fraction the size of an eyelash — munch on their dinner of bacteria broth.
The worms’ soupy meal is laced with a hidden ingredient, invisible so-called “forever chemicals” found in America’s drinking water, our food and farmlands, even lurking in our bodies.
It’s a chemical safety test, said Duke postdoctoral fellow Tess Leuthner. The worms are C. elegans, a garden- and…
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