Nucleic acid hairpins provide a powerful model system for probing the formation of secondary structure.
In the lab of his adviser, Assistant Professor of Physics Waseem Bakr, Scherrer constructed a laser system for probing high-energy states in ultracold lithium atoms, research he is preparing to publish.
The millimeter-long worms are easy to grow in the lab and manipulate genetically, and have only around 1,000 cells, making them a powerful system for probing intricacies of development, behavior and metabolism.
Armed with a cocktail napkin drawing and some additional advice from Robert Wurtz, a distinguished scientist at the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) National Eye Institute in Bethesda, Maryland who developed similar systems for monkeys, Dudman began building a standardized system for probing mouse brains.
Because of its minimal size, Kcv is an excellent model system for probing ion channel structure-function relationships.
Taken together, cells expressing CXCR4CFP, CCR5YFP, CCR5STAYFP and CCR5Δ4YFP provide a system for probing extracellular ligand-induced changes in the dynamics distribution of these receptors on plasma membrane of live cells.
as well as MIWI/piRNA complexes were present (Supplementary information, Figure S2A-S2D), was used as an in vitro model system for probing the potential molecular mechanisms of piRNAs.
These studies demonstrate the utility of Drosophila as a system for probing the role of signaling pathways in regulating age-related intrinsic changes in pre-existing myofibers, without any confounding effects deriving from regeneration and satellite cell function.
Given the suitability of C. elegans as a model system for probing questions about both development and neuronal function [ 32, 33], coupled with the importance of palmitoylation in these systems [ 4, 30, 34], a more thorough analysis could open up new avenues of research within the field.
