by Ethan Perlstein | Sep 7, 2018 | Rare Diseases |
Earlier this summer, I attended the Mitochondrial Medicine 2018 conference in Nashville. Hosted by the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation (UMDF), the conference had attendees from almost every state in the US, and more than 15 countries around the world. A few...
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by Nina DiPrimio | Feb 1, 2015 | Science |
Using yeast as a model organism to study human disease is not a new concept. Yeast are useful for this purpose for many reasons as discussed in a previous post, but potentially of most importance is that yeast cell biology is similar to that of mammalian cells, and...
