Sentences with phrase «mice as a model organism»

They chose a mouse as a model organism.

-- 90 percent of genes associated with disease are identical in the human and the mouse, supporting the use of mice as model organisms.

Not exact matches

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.

Model organisms are available as an alternative, such as mice.

Furthermore, new genome - editing technologies such as CRISPR / Cas9 now enable the efficient derivation of precision disease models incorporating patient - specific genetic variants as a means of recapitulating essential aspects of human disease in mouse and other model organisms.

To facilitate the search, I utilize discoveries and insights from various fields, including evolution, functional genomics, natural (dog) and artificial (mouse) model organisms as well as cell models.

Like the mouse and the fruit fly, Neurospora, a fungus, has served as a model organism in research.

Geneticists across the model organism and human genetics communities recognize Hieter for his dedication to uniting human biologists with those who work on model organisms such as mice, fruit flies, worms, and yeast.

When the Human Genome Project was launched in 1990, it included the mouse as one of its five central model organisms and targeted the creation of genetic, physical and sequence maps of the mouse genome.

But, rather than studying the entire nervous system of a single model organism, Professor Graybiel has studied one brain region — a portion of the basal ganglia known as the striatum — in mice, rats, cats, monkeys, and humans using a whole range of technologies from microscopy through electrophysiological recordings to genetics.

C.C. Little, the inventor of the modern lab mouse and founder of the Jackson Laboratory, had long used «the age old enmity of woman and the Muridae» as a sales pitch for his model organism.