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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.
Are worms the future of drug development?
NemaMetrix’s ScreenChip collects live-animal, high-throughput C. elegans electropharyngeograms (EPGs), which are an indication of overall organism health for drug development. Read the blog post on BioCoder published by O’Reilly Bio.
Searching for a cure for Niemann-Pick Type C using C. elegans
Niemann-Pick Type C is a rare and fatal disorder affecting children. We explore the efficacy of new potential therapeutics with the ScreenChip System.
A new way to study the serotonin pathway using C. elegans
Serotonin is well known for being important in the regulation of people’s mood. We found that we can model the serotonin biochemical pathway using a sensitive measure for pharyngeal pumping in C. elegans.
