The Medical College of Wisconsin won a $13 million, five-year NIH grant to build a computer model of a rat, report the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Mark Johnson and Kathleen Gallagher. Humans and rats share about 90 percent of their genes, including many disease genes, making the rat a useful experimental animal model.
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