8/3/2013 – Worms' Bright Blue Death Could Shed Light On Human Aging

Last year, researchers at University College London’s Institute of Healthy Ageing were looking through their microscopes when they saw something amazing.

“Suddenly there appears a sort of ghostly blue fluorescence,” Gems tells Jacki Lyden, host of weekends on All Things Considered. “And then it spreads in a kind of flashing wave from the front end to the back end. … It’s really quite a sort of eerie phenomenon because it’s reminiscent of the soul departing the worm.”