Virtual Rats to Help Researchers Study Disease

Most lab rats have to be housed, fed and bred. But not the group Daniel Beard has in mind for his new systems biology center. They'll be virtual. Beard, a computational biologist at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, is using computer models of rat physiology to study how genes and environmental factors interact to cause disease. He calls his project, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health, the "Virtual Physiological Rat."

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