From Plants, UVA Extracts a Better Way to Determine What Genes Do (IMAGE)
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"In biology, if we want to figure out how a system works, we break it and see what happens," explained Michael J. Guertin, Ph.D., of UVA's Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. "The problem with that approach is that if you make a mutation in a gene, or you delete a gene, then that can perturb the entire system for hours, days or, sometimes, an entire lifetime."
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