Mouse can do without man's most treasured genes
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 14:07
in Biology & Nature
The mouse is a stalwart stand-in for humans in medical research, thanks to genomes that are 85 percent identical. But identical genes may behave differently in mouse and man, a study by University of Michigan evolutionary biologists Ben-Yang Liao and Jianzhi Zhang reveals.
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