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Illustration showing the location of DNA in a yeast cell

Edward Marcotte and his colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin created hundreds of strains of humanized yeast by inserting into each a single human gene and turning off the corresponding yeast gene. Illustration: Jacqui Tabler.

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