Posted on 07/28/2002 9:10:51 AM PDT by Karl_Lembke
Edited on 04/04/2004 3:52:13 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The poisonous Japanese pufferfish, known as fugu to gourmets who risk their lives eating it, has yielded valuable new genetic information in the quest for deeper knowledge of the basics of human heredity and disease.
Led by gene-mappers at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, an international team of scientists has analyzed and assembled a virtually complete draft of all the genes in the deadly fish, the researchers report.
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Yup. The first time, I got a "page not found" error when I tried to post it, so I started over from the beginning. Looks like I didn't need to.
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