A flood of comparative genomic data is resulting in the identification of human lineage-specific ... can potentially be obtained using HLS transgenic mice. Another alternative would be to use ...

Now, Yu and colleagues have created transgenic mice that overexpress the human COX2 gene specifically in the liver (COX2 TG mice) and shown that this forced expression is sufficient to induce ...

Put simply, geneticists modify lab mice to better reflect how human tissue reacts, making them invaluable in biomedical ...