Researchers recently broke the codes of the rhesus macaque monkey which they report will help them test drugs that are eventually used to help people with certain diseases, and to understand people more.
Dr. Richard Gibbs of the Baylor College of Medicine led the research team of m
ore than 170 scientists that collaborated on the project.
Following human genome mapping in 2001 … researchers attempted to understand the DNA codes of animals who are similar to humans, so they could observe and compare how genes work.
The rhesus macaque is the third primate genome now broken, and according to researchers … it helps us to understand what it "means to be human" at the DNA level. What do you think?
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