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Last week, a group reported online in Nature about having successfully adapted to the rat the most widely used mouse knockout technique. This complements a different method for deleting rat genes described last year in Science. In addition to having two ways to knock out target genes, other groups have reported advances in techniques to produce transgenic rats as well as random knockouts that could be screened for interesting mutants.
