Reaching Beyond the Mouse (IMAGE)

Washington University in St. Louis

Reaching Beyond the Mouse

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Sophisticated techniques for testing hypotheses about the brain by activating and silencing genes are currently available for only a handful of model organisms. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are working on a simple toolkit that will allow scientists who study animal behavior to manipulate the genomes of many other animals, including the honey bees graduate student Cassondra Vernier is collecting for research.

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