Tedious scientists hail uninspiring mouse genome breakthrough
Scientists have admitted that they are ‘deflated and disappointed’ after four years’ dull work to sequence the mouse genome came to boring fruition this week.
British and Swiss geneticists had spent £8m on the pointless project and unveiled the complicated and unintelligible results at a stilted press conference in Geneva on Tuesday. But it soon became apparent that none of the journalists present neither knew nor cared what the mouse genome was, nor what it was for.
Posted: Jun 29th, 2009
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