Sentences with phrase «new model organism»

Niyogi worked on identifying tryptophan biosynthesis pathways in Arabidopsis, which at the time was a relatively new model organism.

«A new model organism for aging research: The short - lived African killifish.»

The research opens the possibility of a new model organism for human heart health and the distant prospect of incorporating such a gene into humans.

So he went in search of a new model organism.

Years later, as I was wrapping up my Ph.D. after having spent countless hours centrifuging yeast, I couldn't wait to work with a new model organism.

Not exact matches

New models suggest groups of humans evolve following some universal rules, and not unlike how organisms evolve.

Traditional genetic approaches together with the new wealth of genomic information for both human and model organisms open up strategies by which drugs can be profiled for their ability to selectively kill cells in a molecular context that matches those found in tumors.

New techniques bring opportunities and challenges to model organisms.

«It's always been hard to work with a new organism,» says Jarvis, «CRISPR is awesome because suddenly, you don't have to spend decades developing a model.»

The new modeling tool — Carbon, Organisms, Rhizosphere and Protection in the Soil Environment, or CORPSE — represents a major advance in the ability of scientists to simulate the global carbon cycle.

Using the model organism, Caenorhabditis elegans, the researchers identified over 400 new mRNA editing sites — the majority regulated by ADR - 1 — and declared the protein the first global regulator of RNA editing.

The team modelled how the membrane changed, enabling LUCA's descendants to move to new, more challenging environments and evolve into two distinct types of single - celled organism, bacteria and archaea, creating the deepest branch of the tree of life.

In experiments on the fruit fly model organism Drosophila melanogaster, Heidelberg University biologists gained new insight into how feeding behaviour is encoded and controlled.

Using a novel method they developed to map chromosome breaks in a model organism, the budding yeast, Wenyi Feng, Ph.D., of Upstate Medical University and her colleagues have discovered new information as to how and where chromosome fragile sites can occur in human DNA.

In the new study, Lee and his colleagues studied piRNAs produced by cells in the reproductive system of the nematode worm, C. elegans, a classic model organism studied by scientists to understand basic biological processes.

«By means of basic research on model organisms, we are trying to understand human genome instability to identify elements, which, in the future, might be able to be explored as targets of new anti-tumour medicines,» explains the researcher responsible for the project and director of Cabimer, Andrés Aguilera.

Given the rapid succession of generations in yeast, we can use it as a model organism — and study the mechanisms of aneuploidy in much greater detail to find out whether we can derive from it new approaches for diagnosing and treating human diseases.»

This approach opens new avenues for research into memory using zebrafish as model organism,» concludes Dr. Okamoto.

A new study from the University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute now reveals how some of that cross-talk between tissues occurs in a common model organism.

Collins used a new analysis performed by NIH staff to address concerns expressed by many of the model organism researchers gathered at TAGC, particularly a 2015 analysis by Michael Wangler, Keith Yamamoto, and Hugo Bellen that suggested NIH grant support for Drosophila research is declining.

Dubbed model - organism ENCODE (modENCODE), this new focus will apply innovative methods and technologies for the study of gene regulation to the smaller, and therefore more manageable, genomes of the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) and the round worm (Caenorhabditis elegans).

As our role in the HapMap concluded, we took on a new grant: constructing the genetic map of C. briggsae, a small roundworm similar to the well - known model organism, C. elegans.

She added, «New model systems will be a magnet for people from outside the field of marine microbial ecology as they will suddenly be able to work with marine microbes in ways that they are used to working with other model organisms.»

The Microbiology Services Division at Porton Down, part of the National Infection Service directorate, has extensive high - containment laboratory facilities and rare capabilities to handle infectious organisms under the highest levels of containment, and the ability to work with in vivo models to evaluate new therapeutic interventions against these organisms.

In a new study, published in Current Biology this week, a research team from Uppsala University reports new insights into the regenerative capabilities of Stentor, a single celled model organism for regeneration biology.

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.

Today, analyzing and editing genomes, proteomes and metabolomes has become a standard for many model systems; imaging beyond the diffraction limit of light and new technologies for studying protein structures provide insights deeper than ever before; the characterization of large populations of cells or organisms brings unprecedented statistical power; and studying nearly all organisms of an ecosystems as a whole allows generating comprehensive models.

Identifying a full list of imprinted genes for humans and model organisms will give scientists a springboard to characterize the mechanisms and functions of imprinting, says Ian Morison of the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.

In addition, projects to perform genetic interaction screens on disease genes in model organisms (yeast, worm, fly, fish) will not be considered, unless the project includes substantive specific aims that investigate the disease relevance of any new genes discovered in human or mammalian model systems.

This network funds pilot studies to expedite collaboration between the two groups, conduct model organism - based functional studies of disease gene variants, and develop new therapeutic strategies using model organisms.

New approaches to microscopy, precision laser ablation of individual cells and capillaries, and genetic engineering of model organisms are opening new vistas for exploring the brain and how it worNew approaches to microscopy, precision laser ablation of individual cells and capillaries, and genetic engineering of model organisms are opening new vistas for exploring the brain and how it wornew vistas for exploring the brain and how it works.

A specific focus will be put on novel model organisms or clades that are now amenable to analysis thanks to new methodologies.