PiggyBac Paves Way for Better Understanding of Human Genes

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PiggyBac Paves Way for Better Understanding of Human Genes

HHMI researchers have harnessed a mobile gene from the cabbage looper

moth and modified it for routine use to determine the function of

genes in mice and other vertebrates.

If the new tool works as they expect, it will speed understanding of

genes involved in human biology and disease and accelerate the search

for effective new therapies.

Research published in the August 12, 2005, issue of Cell.

HHMI investigator(s):

Tian Xu, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine

Min Han, Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder

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