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We can afford to lose more genes than we’d thought

Apparently, humans can take more gene knockouts than you'd believe. (credit: Getty Images) Making gene knockouts has long been one of researchers’ favorite ways to determine the function of a gene. If you eliminate a particular gene and it kills the organism, the thinking goes, then that gene must be pretty darn important.

 

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