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 | | That is when Yale scientists became the first in history to implant a human gene successfully in another species a mouse. |
 | | The mice are used to study a vast range of questions, including the workings of the immune system, the causes of cancer, ways to control drug addiction, how the brain and skeleton develop and the mechanisms of asthma. |
 | | Among recent firsts at Yale, Prabir Ray, Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine, and Jack Elias, M.D., section chief of pulmonary and critical care medicine, created the first transgenic mouse that expresses human interleukin 11 in the lung, which is known to be a factor in the development of asthma. |
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