The largest international biological research initiative since the Human Genome Project is nearing completion…
Soon, every mouse gene will be disabled (or disable-able). Scientists will engineer all sorts of mice missing all sorts of genes.
And we’ll be able to use those mutant mice to study the genetics of human diseases – and develop more drugs and test more therapies. Whoa.
Launched in 2006, the global effort’s goal is to disable each of the 20,000 or so genes in the mouse genome and make all the resulting stem cell lines available to the scientific community. Nature News reports.
Categories: Genetics