The mutant mice didnt make sense. Josef M. Penninger of the University of Toronto and his colleagues had disabled a rodent gene that they thought controlled another gene, one involved in the immune system. Yet the mice had no immune defects or any other obvious problems. The more we went into the project the more confused we got, recalls Penninger.
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