May 19, 2016
Lately, this little animal has been gathering friends all around the world!
This week a story about it came out in Newsweek, we are thrilled, so exciting! Please check it out and feel free to ask any questions.
Just an update, we have almost 5000 visits to the web page and we reached 64% of the funding goal, a huge thank you for all the backers.
Cheers
P.S. here goes a link to another perpective about the Vworm in Researchgate web page
George Gardner Brown, Genome, and 2 others like this.
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