THE FULL CYCLE

摘要

In April ths year Nobel laureate Sydney Bren-ner brought the crowd to its feet at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in San Diego, California. Brenner pioneered the use of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans as a simple model for studying growth and development. But in his talk, he championed experiments on a more complicated creature: Homo sapiens. "We don't have to look for model organisms anymore because we are the model organism," he said.