Source: University of Southern California
Date: August 11, 2010
Summary:
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have, for the first time, generated “knockout” rats — animals that are genetically modified to lack one or more genes — through embryonic stem (ES) cell-based gene targeting. The long-awaited achievement provides scientists with a far more effective animal model to study a range of human diseases.
The research was published online in the journal Nature and will appear in an upcoming print edition of the journal.
