 As well as its implication in many diseases, it is an integral part of biological development.Sydney Brenner's studies on animal development began in the late 1950s in what was to become the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge, UK.It was at this lab that during the 1970s and 1980s, a team led by John Sulston succeeded in tracing the nematode "Caenorhabditis elegans" entire embryonic cell lineage.