We are the model organisms

Genomeweb today reports Sidney Brenner (Nobel Prize winner 2002 and pioneer in the use of Caenorhabditis elegans as a model organism) speaking on a conference. These days he’s pushing a new model organism: humans.

“We don’t have to look for a model organism anymore,” Brenner said. “Because we are the model organisms.”

 

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