With its speedy growth and adaptability, E. coli has spent many years at the top of the "model organism" list, with no signs ...

The Baylor/Rice Genome Editing Testing Center (GETC ... We focus on the mouse as a model organism or the development of new technologies and preclinical testing of gene editing therapies. The center ...

In a bid to find answers to their questions, the scientists work with model organisms ... development work in a similar way in different organisms – be they flies or people, thale cress or rice.

How many genes are there? This question is surprisingly not very important, and has nothing to do with the organism's complexity. There is more to genomes than protein-coding genes alone.