With its speedy growth and adaptability, E. coli has spent many years at the top of the "model organism" list, with no signs of slipping. But E. coli is a blip in a rich microbial world ...

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 ...

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,” ...

That’s when you need the whole animals.” “If anyone is going to do a study in primates, it’s because they think it’s the only possible animal model that will work,” Hotchkiss emphasizes. “That gets ...

Wild animals adapted to extreme environments, such as hibernating bears, sub-Antarctic birds or deep-sea worms, hold molecular secrets that could revolutionize medicine. Now, researchers have ...

During the early years of the twentieth century, fruit flies were the model organism of choice for many genetic researchers, including those who worked in Thomas Hunt Morgan's famous "fly room ...

The way we study plant cells is expanding—literally—thanks to new research from Kevin Cox, an assistant professor of biology ...

Think yeast just belongs in the kitchen? Mitosis in baker's yeast can also tell us about mutations that cause cancer. One of the first scientists to discover some of these cancer-causing mutations ...