Orangutan's genetic sequence for life decoded

Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 16:31 in Biology & Nature

Susie, a female Sumatran orangutan from a Texas zoo — along with a few of her kin in the wild — has been decoded, her genetic instructions for life laid out for scientists to inspect, an international team of researchers announced Wednesday.

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