Human cell lines power biomedical research and several technological & therapeutic advances in science have utilized these tools. “We don’t have that with the turtle,” said our Biochemist Kyle Biggar. “This is a major limitation.” Instead, turtle biologists have relied on observational studies and terminal experiments that provide a series of descriptive snapshots of signal transduction pathways or metabolic adaptations that are fixed to a single time point. “Before, we were producing hypotheses, but we couldn’t test them,” said Dr. Biggar.
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