'Draft Sequence' of Pig Genome Could Benefit Agriculture and Medicine

Wednesday, November 14, 2012 - 18:00 in Biology & Nature

T. J. Tabasco is something of a porcine goddess at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where her ruddy, taxidermied head looks down from the office wall of geneticist Lawrence Schook. Now she has been immortalized in this week’s Nature -- not by name, but by the letters of her DNA. [More]

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