Sentences with phrase «simpler animal models»

To begin to understand cognitive processing, emotional behaviors, and neurodegenerative disease, scientists study the brains of simpler animal models.

According to study co-author Larry J. Young of Emory University, the results provide evidence in a comparatively simple animal model that changes in the activity of a single gene profoundly can change a fundamental social behavior of animals within a species.

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It is currently playing out in the live animal export sector, where the demise of local processing opened the door for a live export sector, which in turn through its simple business model has compromised livestock welfare and alienated many consumers, reduced employment in Top End towns which once had abattoirs, and added risk to cattle business profitability by providing only one market outlet.

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.

Herzberg said his stories dealt «with obviousness that is not obvious... the stethoscope as the eternal symbol of doctors, mice as our best animal model, eels as simple, almost boring, river fishes.

He cautions there is a huge gap between the simple response of single - celled animals and the cognitive abilities of developed species, but adds there is no doubt that a combined set of simple circuit models will have more complex behaviour.

A simple and inexpensive zebrafish model of concussion, reported in eNeuro, reveals the genetic pathways underlying the animal's remarkable ability to regenerate injured brain tissue.

OIST scientists selected the zebrafish as an animal model because its retina is rich in cones and its visual acuity can be measured with a simple device.

Mathematical models allow us to understand how patterns and processes in the real world are generated and how complex behaviour, such as the collective movement of animal groups, can be produced from simple individual level rules.

One of the main problems with animal models is that we can only model simple aspects of disorders.

The phylogenetic position of the cephalochordate amphioxus, together with its relatively simple and evolutionarily conserved morphology and genome structure, has led to its use as a model for studies of animal evolution, with a special focus on the origin of deuterostomes, chordates, and vertebrates.

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 a child, he modeled simple figures and animals from lumps of tar he found on the street.