Sentences with phrase «studying simple organisms»

«There is so much we can learn by studying simple organisms.»

In addition, we will study another simple organism — the fruit fly — to elucidate how the entire brain coordinates behavior in the face of an ever - changing environment.

Not exact matches

The complexity of mammals led Kandel to try to find a simpler organism to use in his studies.

Scientists knew that fruit flies, cockroaches, and other simple organisms have sensory processors that resemble a cortex, but these were «always interpreted as a striking example of convergent evolution of unrelated structures,» says molecular biologist Raju Tomer, who led the study at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany.

But while this study has proved that the technique works in a simple organism, it could also be applied to other bacterial species, yeast or even human cells to find useful information about how genes are controlled and how they can be manipulated.

«This study is a beautiful example of how relatively simple bioinspired robots can address [questions] that are difficult or impossible to test in living organisms,» says Brandon Jackson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Montana, Missoula.

It also offers an opportunity to study learning types in other very simple organisms, such as viruses or bacteria.

Rao's team next tested how these variant forms of NHE9 would affect a relatively simple organism often used in genetic studies: yeast.

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

The study provides new insights in how eukaryotic organisms gradually evolved from simpler microbial ancestors.

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.

Technologies to visualize neurons in live subjects — as well as process such gargantuan volumes of data — do not yet exist, so only post-mortem studies in simpler organisms are even presently imaginable.

His studies focus on the fundamental mechanisms of aging in simple organisms and mice and on how they can be translated to humans.