Caenorhabditis elegans: The Heavyweight Champ of Gene Knockout Technology

Rachel Pan| Pages 23-27 | BioTeach Online Journal | Vol. 2 | Fall 2004

To take on the overwhelming task of the functional analysis of the C. elegans genome, the "Gene Knockout Consortium" was created. Three labs in Canada, the U.S. and Japan have combined their efforts to analyze the function of every gene in the C. elegans genome.