Event

Freaky Friday: How I learned to stop worrying and love genetic modification

Friday, January 28, 2011 17:00to20:00
Redpath Museum 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA

By Andrew Abela (Chudasama laboratory of Brain and Behaviour, Dept. of Psychology)

Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct human manipulation of an organism's genetic material in a way that does not occur under natural conditions. It involves the use of recombinant DNA techniques, but does not include traditional animal and plant breeding or mutagenesis. Any organism that is generated using these techniques is considered to be a genetically modified organism. Learn about the genetic modification in experimental mice being used for research purposes.

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Free, everyone welcome. Seating is limited. No reservations necessary.

Photo by Rama, Wikipedia.org, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 France license.

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