Understanding Gene Expression Across Organisms by Stanford Researchers

Model organisms, like fruit flies and roundworms, have long been used to learn more about human biology and disease. Now, researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that although many aspects of regulatory networks are conserved among the three distantly related organisms, other differences have emerged over evolutionary time. These differences may explain why, for example, worms slither, flies fly and humans walk on two legs, even though ...

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