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...make mouse calls," proclaims a sign on the desk of the secretary of Philip Leder '56, Andrus professor of genetics and chair of the Medical School's Department of Genetics...
...Leder's genetic research gained worldwide attention in 1988 when he became the first to obtain a patent on a genetically altered animal...
With the ability to inject a mouse egg with a gene that may lead to cancer, Leder says he and his staff of researchers can test various hypotheses about cancers...
...looking at whether or not the mouse's offspring develop cancer, Leder can learn what secondary factors influence the development of malignant tumors, he says...
...Leder says that with the aid of the genetically altered--or transgenic--mice, he has discovered much about cancer that could not be learned from just studying tissue cultures...