Diet of nematodes affects capacity to learn: Study

Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): Researchers discovered that when nematodes, tiny worms measuring about a millimetre or less in length, eat the bacteria Lactobacillus reuteri, the ageing-related decline in associative learning ability does not occur.

These findings could point to ways to use diet to slow age-related cognitive decline in other animals, including humans. Their research was published in the journal eLife.

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