What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program
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...Xenopus frog cell lines to develop robust methods for frog gene editing. They edit in a cell line, then ...is the smallest photosynthetic cell in existence, but most abundant cell on earth (twice the human biomass...only 1,700 genes total).
Hydra (Celina Juliano)
This is a known stem cell and regeneration model. Little...Mormyridae (Jason Gallant)
Weakly electric fish are excellent systems to study for convergent evolution because...Hawaiian bobtail squid has an extreme number of nerve cells and an unusually high level of RNA recoding in the...using novel vesicles to efficiently transform these cells which don’t like foreign DNA at all (maybe because...