Sentences with phrase «simple model organisms»

As one of the three initial cores established when the Buck Institute was founded, the Genomics Core has played a vital role in helping shape investigations in the basic molecular biology of aging, from assisting in the investigation of how specific drugs can extend lifespan in simple model organisms such as the nematode C. elegans, to facilitating studies in various animal models of age - related disease.

As bioinformatics approaches can only provide partial solutions, a functional analysis pipeline, based on primary (fibroblast) cell cultures, induced Pluripotent Stem cells (iPS) or simple model organisms, is truly essential.

«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.

In a 2012 paper in Neuron, based on meetings organized by the Oxnard, California - based Kavli Foundation, Yuste and colleagues laid out a plan to progress gradually from mapping the brain activity of simple model organisms such as the fruit fly to charting the brains of creatures that contain roughly 1 million neurons, such as the Etruscan shrew.

Professor Horvitz had already made major contributions to understanding neural development using C. elegans as a simple model organism.

Clocking in at 302 neurons, it is one of the simplest model organisms to possess a nervous system.

Just one millimeter long, and with a mere 302 neurons, this simple model organism was easy to grow and manipulate in the laboratory.

Not exact matches

The sea slug was the model organism for Kreiner's thesis research, which explored how cellular mechanisms mediate simple behaviors and led to a publication in Science.

Using the freshwater polyp Hydra as a model organism, the Kiel - based researchers and their international colleagues investigated how the simple nervous system of these animals interacts with the microbiome.

Although pond snails reach only 7 cm in length, its simple neural network and physiology make it a popular model organism with neurobiologists.

In the 1970s, George Streisinger, a scientist at the University of Oregon, was interested in using a vertebrate model organism that was simpler than the mouse and easy to manipulate genetically.

Many researchers assumed the organism was too simple to serve as a good model when studying the complexities of neurodegenerative diseases.