$10 Million Awarded for Sequencing Pig Genome
URBANA - The United States Department of Agriculture has awarded the University of Illinois $10 million to provide the initial genome sequence of the pig. U of I animal geneticists, Lawrence Schook and Jonathan Beever recently created a side-by-side comparison of the human and pig genomes and are excited that they will now be able to take that research to the next level. Schook, Beever and Bruce Schatz from the Department of Medical Information science at the U of I will coordinate the project.
16 January 2006
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