RHESUS MACAQUE GENOME MAY HOLD CLUES FOR HUMAN HEALTH AND EVOLUTION

US Fed News Service, Including US State News | April 12, 2007 | Copyright

University of Washington issued the following news release:

An international consortium of scientists has completed a draft sequence of the genome of the rhesus macaque, a species of non-human primate that is widely used for creating models of human diseases and infections. The study paves the way for researchers to watch disease progression at the genetic level in macaques, a close relative of humans. The findings, which appear in the April 13 issue of Science, will also teach us more about how humans and other primates evolved into distinct species.

The rhesus macaque genome is the product ...

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