Sentences with phrase «model organisms like»

«Amy's video is both beautiful to watch on an aesthetic level and beautiful to watch as an illustration of how simple model organisms like Ashbya can give us insights into human diseases like Alzheimer's,» Atkinson continues.

Until now, the human gut has been hard to study because it's so different from those in typical model organisms like mice, so these tiny tummies open up a world of possibility.

Different model organisms like the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster are used for their research, aimed at decoding the principles of stem cell control with the aim to also apply them to higher forms of life and eventually humans.

Finally, the authors addressed two major challenges for any study that generates large data - sets of individual genes and proteins in model organisms like yeast: How to assemble the data into coherent maps?

Not exact matches

The evidence here is so overwhelming that creationists are required to invoke facially - flawed mechanisms to account for this order (for example, «hydrodynamic sorting» which fails in light of similar density organisms not found in the same strata, like ostriches and ornithomimids; «ecozonation» which fails in light of similar niched organisms not found in the same strata, like dolphins and plesiosaurs; and «floating biomes» for the same reasons as the previous two creationist «models»).

Certain mental phenomena might be explained and modeled with computers; the most fashionable candidates at the moment envision thoughts competing in the brain like organisms in the wild.

«Like many labs, we use C. elegans — a tiny roundworm — as a model organism to reveal important lessons about aging and autophagy,» explains Hansen.

«The world of genomics is beginning to open up for people like me who don't study model organisms,» Egan said.

Kris Niyogi (pictured left) likes model organisms.

«In model organisms, like yeast or flies, scientists often generate mutations to determine which letters in a DNA sequence are needed for a particular gene to function,» explains CSHL Professor Adam Siepel.

«The fruit fly is a well - known model organism used to understand human biology as it, like all other living organisms, has to fend off various viral infections.

Her doctoral thesis involved studying the role of GABAB - like GPCRs in model organism, Dictyostelium discoideum.

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

We would like to introduce you to our favourite model organism: the zebrafish.

The model represents asexual organisms that reproduce like plants.

Articles feature links to model organism databases like SGD, FlyBase, and WormBase.

While 140 million pieces might sound like a lot, Arabidopsis has the smallest genome of any flowering plant, which is the main reason it was selected as a model organism for genome sequencing.