Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you so much!! I hadn’t previously though of the ethical implications of this project, this is a very interesting question! I believe that flies were selected first just because they are a good model organism to work with in lab and share a lot of disease causing genes with humans. The study is moving along to do research on mice and other vertebrate animals, and although the research being done on genomes is most likely online at the moment, there are always ethical considerations with doing research on live animals. In the distant future, if the study ever progresses to where we would want to test any affects of the CtBP gene and protein in live animals or even humans, one would have to consider the ethical effects of what could happen if the experiment goes wrong as well as that of the testing in the first place.

Thank you so much!! I hadn’t previously though of the ethical implications of this project, this is a very interesting question! I believe that flies were selected first just because they are a good model organism to work with in lab and share a lot of disease causing genes with humans. The study is moving along to do research on mice and other vertebrate animals, and although the research being done on genomes is most likely online at the moment, there are always ethical considerations with doing research on live animals. In the distant future, if the study ever progresses to where we would want to test any affects of the CtBP gene and protein in live animals or even humans, one would have to consider the ethical effects of what could happen if the experiment goes wrong as well as that of the testing in the first place.

Thank you so much!! I hadn’t previously though of the ethical implications of this project, this is a very interesting question! I believe that flies were selected first just because they are a good model organism to work with in lab and share a lot of disease causing genes with humans. The study is moving along to do research on mice and other vertebrate animals, and although the research being done on genomes is most likely online at the moment, there are always ethical considerations with doing research on live animals. In the distant future, if the study ever progresses to where we would want to test any affects of the CtBP gene and protein in live animals or even humans, one would have to consider the ethical effects of what could happen if the experiment goes wrong as well as that of the testing in the first place.