Even Caenorhabditis elegans, a primitive roundworm made up of a few thousand cells, does something that looks an awful lot like it.

即使是秀丽隐杆线虫（Caenorhabditis elegans）这种由几千个细胞组成的原始蛔虫，也会做一些看起来非常相似的事情。

Drs Ambros and Ruvkun—who worked at the same lab in the late 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—discovered miRNA molecules using a key tool of biological inquiry: the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans.

Ambros 博士和 Ruvkun 博士——他们于 20 世纪 80 年代末在麻省理工学院的同一实验室工作——利用生物学研究的一个关键工具——秀丽隐杆线虫发现了 miRNA 分子。