'It’s stunning to see a genetic modification like this,' developmental geneticist Douglas Mortlock of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., says of the new study, published online July 16 in Science. 'This is the gene that makes wiener dogs short-legged.'
Great Quote from Our Own Doug Mortlock
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