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Purification of Transcripts and Metabolites from Drosophila Heads
Published on: March 15, 2013
Of flies and men--studying human disease in Drosophila
1Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Building 149, 13th Street, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA. abernard@helix.mgh.harvard.edu
Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
|May 30, 2001
Abstract:
During the past year, the Drosophila genome has been sequenced. More than 60% of genes implicated in human disease have Drosophila orthologues. Developments in RNA-mediated interference and homologous recombination have made 'reverse genetics' feasible in Drosophila. Conventional Drosophila genetics is being used increasingly to place human disease genes of unknown function in the context of functional pathways.
