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Homeostasis is an arguably underappreciated and powerful process that may yet receive its due, as scientists continue to knock out, mutate, and overexpress genes to clarify protein function. It is clear that these techniques contribute greatly to the understanding of life at the cellular, tissue, organ, and organismal level. However, models created with less potent functional dysregulation may mimic more accurately real-world physiology.
Two groups of researchers have isolated functional truncated mutant forms of p53 with a wild-type allele in two different model systems, worm and...
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