$2.6 million to build versatile genetic toolkit for studying animal behavior

(Washington University in St. Louis) Sophisticated techniques for testing hypotheses about the brain by activating and silencing genes are currently available for only a handful of model organisms. Scientists at Washington University in St. Louis are working on a simplified toolkit that will allow scientists who study animal behavior to manipulate the genomes of many other animals with the hope of accelerating progress in our understanding of the brain.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news