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Retrospective on reverse genetics in mice around the world and in Japan.
Development, growth & differentiation - 1 Jun 2008
Aizawa Shinichi
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The 2007 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Mario R. Capecchi, Martin J. Evans and Oliver Smithies for their contribution in generating mutant mice by gene targeting in embryonic stem (ES) cells. Although there are many experimental animals, it is yet only in mouse that one can genetically examine functions of genes at will. It was merely a dream in the early 1980s that genetic studies with...
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