Neurotechniques
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January 2007
First-round knockout
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Knockout mice in the F0 generation are genetically identical to the embryonic stem cells used to make them in a new gene knockout technique.
Original research paper: Nature Biotechnology 25, 91-99 (2007)
The absent-minded sea slug
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Researchers find homologs of genes associated with disorders of the human nervous system in a new database of Aplysia gene expression.
Original research paper: Cell 127, 1453-1467 (2006)
Silence the critics
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A forward genetics technique randomly silences entire genes.
Original research paper: Nature Methods 4, 51-53 (2006)
You light up my life
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Researchers use light to turn behaviors on and off in Drosophila expressing photo-activated adenylate cyclase.
Original research paper: Nature Methods (2006)