Geneticist develops tool to identify genes important in disease, tailoring individual treatment
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 - 13:20
in Biology & Nature
Medical researchers have devised a technique for testing the consequence of variant human gene alleles (alternative sequences of a single gene) by moving them into yeast cells. Once swapped into yeast, colony growth can be compared to reveal functional differences.
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