Bar-Ilan scientists pioneer use of worms rather than rats to model human muscle diseases
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Exciting news from the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA) was published in Israeli and foreign media.
The research team, led by Prof. Chaya Brodie from the Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), Prof. Sivan Korenblit from BIU, along with Dr. Amir Dori from Sheba Medical Center, developed a novel platform to model human muscle diseases using the Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) worm, a tiny nematode used to understand biological processes. This innovation enables versatile, scalable disease studies and paves the way for personalized disease modeling approaches.
The study, funded by the Israeli Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology, was recently published in Disease Models and Mechanisms.
Last Updated Date : 02/06/2024