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Seventeen Minutes of Science: Spreading out from Kendall (Episode 6)

Stuck at home with nothing to do during this quarantine? Restless to still be learning and interacting with other scientists? You’re in luck! You can now tune in weekly to our virtual series “Seventeen Minutes of Science”. Every Tuesday at 11am PST / 2pm ET we will go live on Facebook to talk about science …

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[New Webinar] A Shortcut to Understanding Longevity

Sign up for our upcoming webinar to learn more about our Longevity Platform and how it can benefit you! Title: A Shortcut to Understanding Longevity: A Rapid in vivo Analysis of a Compound’s Effect on Health and Aging Date: Wednesday February 12th, 2020 Time: 11am PST/2pm ET Agenda: Who are we? Healthy Aging: compounds for improving longevity and …

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Zebrafish and C. elegans in ALS: tightening the bench-to-clinic gap

While advances in molecular imaging, high-throughput screening, genomics and techniques like CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing have dramatically enhanced our understanding of the human body and disease, the pace of advancing new treatments for those diseases has lagged behind significantly. One way to shorten the time between laboratory discoveries and available new drugs is to use animal …

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Worms, Flies or Fish? A Comparison of Common Model Organisms — Part 2: Models for human diseases

Non-mammalian model organisms are typically used in early research to deliver fast answers to a discovery problem. The most popular model organisms in biological and biomedical research are the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish and the nematode C. elegans. We provide an overview of the advantages and limitations of these organisms as models for human diseases in this post

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Worms, Flies or Fish? A Comparison of Common Model Organisms – Part 1: Models for Biomedical Research

Non-mammalian model organisms are typically used in early research to deliver fast answers to a discovery problem. The most popular model organisms in biological and biomedical research are the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, the zebrafish and the nematode C. elegans. We provide a comparison of the advantages and limitations of many commonly used model organisms.

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