This new research indicates that targeting of methylation on the adenine base in unicellular organisms could be a way in ...

Why do we still need model organisms to understand human disease? Timothy J. Aitman. In May 2008, Nature Genetics published a Focus issue on rat genetics. An article in that issue 1, co-authored and ...

Forward- and reverse-genetic screens in model organisms have revealed that phenotypic traits are typically influenced by the activities of hundreds or thousands of genes and that, conversely, ...

Algae are a diverse group of aquatic organisms that have the ability to conduct photosynthesis. Certain algae are familiar to most people; for instance, seaweeds (such as kelp or phytoplankton), pond ...