Because the mouse is so well studied, its sequence will speed the understanding of how our own genes work, says mouse geneticist Barbara Knowles, director of research at the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. (sciencemag.org)
Both human and mouse geneticists share that sentiment. (sciencemag.org)
The scientists then used another technique to pull out the foreign DNA introduced during the gene repair, «kind of like putting in scaffolding, then taking it down,» says mouse geneticist Allan Bradley of the Sanger Institute, who co-authored a paper about the work in Nature. (sciencemag.org)