But there's a catch: "Basically all model organisms, the ones that are most studied and most published on, are rarely that ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. These organisms are also successful models because of their versatility. “The best model species are ones that are not just two dimensional,” ...

Model organisms are non-human, widely-studied, well-characterized organisms that are used to make important basic biological discoveries, understanding disease mechanisms, and lay the groundwork for ...

In other words, all tumors have mutations, but some have different mutations than others; moreover, different cancer drugs work better on different tumors depending on the nature of the mutations ...

In a new paper published in the journal Trends in Genetics researchers from the University of Vermont and Trinity College ...

A reference sequence for this emerging model organism will facilitate research on type 2 diabetes and the health effects of circadian rhythm disruption. Increasing mitochondrial activity in worms by ...

The fluid dynamics of cooperative feeding may have sparked single cells to assemble into complex, multicellular life, as ...

Critically, it suggests that many experimental results that purport to support conclusions about all of humanity may ... based on data from any other model organism and that researchers need ...