AR-News: (U.S.) rat research

[Mary Finelli]

EMBRACING THE RAT
Veterinary Sciences Tomorrow, June 15, 2004

full article:
http://www.vetscite.org/publish/items/001810/index.html


In the past fifty years, the role of the rat has shifted from a bane on 
society – eater of harvests, carrier of disease – to an animal of great 
utility, as the best physiological model for research. Now the rat's value 
to researchers is poised to skyrocket with the recently completed sequencing 
of the rat genome. Richard Gibbs, Director of the Human Genome Sequencing 
Center at Baylor College of Medicine (http://www.hgsc.bcm.tmc.edu/)headed up 
the enormous consortium of researchers from over 20 institutions worldwide. 
Gibbs says that the sequence will be valuable to many areas of biology, but 
its greatest potential lies in the development of models of complex human 
disease.

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