Sentences with phrase «key model organisms»

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The obvious key to living longer is to eat less, and significantly cutting calories has been shown to lengthen life span substantially in model organisms such as worms and mice.

Scientists use model organisms to study critical biological processes, but Egan said the study of nonmodel organisms is often the key to ecological questions, including those related to how the environment influences natural selection and speciation.

This key role in the food network makes them important model organisms for ecotoxicologists.

«The key breakthrough came from using a fruit fly model of human ALS and FTD that allowed us to screen these 400 candidates for ones that block brain cell death in a living organism,» says Lloyd.

Collins also discussed funding of model organism databases, citing the open letter for support of these key resources, which had over 11,000 signatures at the time of his talk.

Biological Annotation of the Genomic Sequence A key use of the sequence information from the canonical model organisms, such as Drosophila, will be to help interpret the sequence of the human genome.

The water flea is a key species in aquatic ecosystems and an important model organism in biology and environmental genetics.

Over the past few years, studies in both humans and model organisms have provided insight into factors that are key components of the generation of aneuploidy.

Indeed, key aspects of most human disorders can be modeled in experimentally tractable organisms through the analysis of orthologous genes and pathways, using the genetic, biochemical and cell biological toolboxes that have been developed in each model organism.

Loss - of - function studies are key for investigating gene function, and CRISPR technology has made genome editing widely accessible in model organisms and cells.