Transgenic songbirds provide new tool to understand the brain
Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 08:21
in Biology & Nature
You can learn a lot from an animal. By manipulating the DNA of mice, flies, frogs and worms, scientists have discovered a great deal about the genes and molecules behind many of life's essential processes. These basic functions often work about the same in people as they do in "model" animals.
