Word: roundwormã
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Gary Ruvkun, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School, used a promising new technique to identify about 417 genes in the roundworm??€™s genetic code related to fat production and storage...
Humans share about half the roundworm??€™s 20,000 genes, including 200 of the fat-storage genes, but whether the same gene deactivation technique will work out in humans is still unclear...
Ruvkun suggests that with the current understanding of the roundworm??€™s gene composition, new drugs might be developed to deal with obesity...