Gene Therapy

Scientists at University of Adelaide, Center for the Molecular Genetics of Development publish research in gene therapy

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, June 21st, 2007

Data detailed in "Know thy fly" have been presented. "The generation and analysis of mutants is central to studies of gene function in model organisms. for random mutagenesis in Drosophila melanogaster have been available for many years, but an alternative approach--targeted mutagenesis using homologous recombination--has only recently been developed," scientists in Adelaide, Australia report.

"This approach has the advantage of specificity, because genes of interest can be altered. One might expect with a gene-targeting approach that the frequency of background mutations would be minimal. Unfortunately, we have found that this is not the case. Although the...

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Source: Gene Therapy Weekly (2007-06-21)

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