《Nature,3月9日,How monkeys, mice and ferrets are helping scientists to fight coronavirus》

  • 来源专题:COVID-19科研动态监测
  • 编译者: zhangmin
  • 发布时间:2020-03-10
  • As coronavirus marches around the globe, a sleepy town on the rugged Maine coast has become an unlikely nucleus in researchers’ efforts to combat the disease, known as COVID-19. The Jackson Laboratory, a mouse-breeding facility in Bar Harbor, is rushing to produce stocks of a transgenic mouse that scientists hope will help them to understand the virus.

  • 原文来源:https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00698-x
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