A tiny primate may join the ranks of the world’s model organisms
Lemurs may be better than mice for understanding human disease
TREE 2B, RANOMAFANA, is not an address recognised by Madagascar’s postal service. It is, though, someone’s home. The someone in question is a mouse lemur called Judah, the 349th participant to be enrolled into a project run by Mark Krasnow, a biochemist at Stanford University, in California.
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