The scientific limelight comes naturally to model organisms such as baker's yeast, the fruit fly or the house mouse. The promise of genetics to shed light on heredity, development or behavior ...

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

What do a frog, a filamentous fungus, and a water flea have in common? They are all model organisms for biomedical research. This aptly named site through the NIH brings all model organisms into the ...

The bulk of biological research is centered on a handful of species. Are we missing a huge chunk of life's secrets? Then in the early 1900s, Morgan was looking for an organism to test some of Charles ...

In Darwin’s and Mendel’s times, researchers investigated a wealth of organisms, chosen to solve particular problems for which they seemed especially well suited. Later, a focus on a few organisms, ...

Research in evolutionary developmental biology, known as "evo-devo," is being held back because the dominant model organisms used by scientists are unable to illustrate key questions about evolution, ...

BETHESDA, MD, May 22, 2002 -- The National Human Genome Research Institute has prioritized the next group of organisms to be considered for entry into the sequencing pipeline as the current efforts ...

To develop new model organisms, scientists will have to find species that are easy to grow in the lab. Touring the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, ...

Scientists know little about how the brain creates and controls emotions - an uncertainty that presents a major obstacle in the effort to develop treatments for emotional disorders. "The study of the ...

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 ...

Modern animals—including humans—are stunningly complex organisms made of many billions of cells that work together. These complex multicellular organisms evolved from much simpler organisms, and those ...