Ian Gunn at the Animal Gene Storage Resource Centre of Australia, also in Melbourne, is collecting testes, ovaries, bits of skin and other body parts from over 100 species.

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The mice the two independent labs used were several generations distant from the original strain or grown from preserved embryos, and in that interval, any number of changes could have happened in gene sequences or to affect how the animal uses the gene.

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Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ), the world's third-largest drug company, is using gene expression arrays, also known as DNA chips, to keep clinical duds from reaching expensive animal or human trials.

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