BenchFly’s Model Organism Week
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Many of the questions that we ask in research are to ultimately find an answer or understand a biological process in humans. However, human research is often too difficult, risky and expensive to undertake. Enter: model organisms.
Model organisms provide researchers with a way to conduct experiments and get answers without many of these problems. (However, any graduate student could name a few disadvantages to their model organism). In celebration of some of the many model organisms in the scientific field, BenchFly – in collaboration with a few graduate student guest bloggers – is dedicating this week to some of our favorite model organisms. So enjoy reading about your model organism or discover the field of a new one! Don’t see your organism discussed? Submit your post to us at [email protected]!
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@aemonten
wrote on January 12, 2010 at 12:33 pm
No fungi among the alternatives ?! I'm betting a good part of that "Other" percentage corresponds to fungi researchers :-)
alan@benchfly
wrote on January 12, 2010 at 6:49 pm
True- sorry about that! And a preemptive sorry to the yeast community…
Lab Rat
wrote on February 23, 2010 at 9:54 am
I know this is waaaay too late to be of any use…but there's a distinct eukaryotic bias to this as well. Not one bacteria, let alone archaea is mentioned!
alan@benchfly
wrote on February 23, 2010 at 2:40 pm
Sorry for the omission – bacteria and archaea have definitely played important roles in research!