$2.6 Million to Build Versatile Genetic Toolkit for Studying Animal Behavior
Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 13:52
in Biology & Nature
Sophisticated techniques for testing hypotheses about the brain by activating and silencing genes are currently available for only a handful of model organisms. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are working on a simplified toolkit that will allow scientists who study animal behavior to manipulate the genomes of many other animals with the hope of accelerating progress in our understanding of the brain.