Sentences with phrase «years model organism»

Insights from model organisms have long helped scientists understand the biology behind such genetic diseases, but in recent years model organism researchers have become even more directly involved in diagnosing the millions of people affected — and in searching for treatments.

Not exact matches

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.

A year earlier James Watson and Francis Crick had proposed their double - helix model of DNA, the nucleic acid that conveys genetic information from generation to generation in all organisms except certain viruses.

For nearly 150 years, lichens have been the model organisms of symbiosis.

That year, I joined the lab of Raymond E. Miller, which played a role in the International HapMap Project and later the genetic map of C. briggsae, a model organism related to C. elegans.

Birds have been the model organisms for studying embryonic development for many years, but the difficulty in applying transgenesis to birds has hampered the use of the avian model in modern science.

Zebrafish have only been used as a model organism by a lot of labs in the last 15 years or so.

In the last few years, several studies have shown that gene therapy, especially if applied early, can stop or reverse some forms of congenital blindness in model organisms.

Now, after years of painstaking research, scientists have succeeded in duplicating the disease's most critical features in the most readily manipulated model organism in existence.

This year the organizers overtly recognized the history of our biomedical research niche in which C. elegans nematodes are used as a model organism (see our SAGE blog on how C. elegans models are used to study aging).

One such study from last year looked at Bacillus subtilis, a common soil bacterium which has become a model organism for experiments and holds the record for space survival after spending six years on NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility spacecraft.

A fitting variety of model organisms for a great year in developmental biology!

Over the past few years, studies in both humans and model organisms have provided insight into factors that are key components of the generation of aneuploidy.

Now in her final year at Oxford, Mehera spends most of her time in the lab studying DNA repair in the model organism Dictyostelium, a slime mold with proteins that may inform human cancer research.

As the model organism Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (modENCODE) project draws to completion this year, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is hosting a special symposium to celebrate the project's accomplishments.

The organizers of the project, called GP - write (for work in model organisms and plants) or sometimes HGP - write (for work in human cell lines), envision it as a successor to the Human Genome Project (retroactively termed HGP - read), which 25 years ago promoted rapid advances in DNA sequencing technology.