If Chengzu Long hadn't been quite so unlucky, he might never have attempted to study and treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy. As a PhD student in Eric Olson's lab at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Long had spent years knocking out genes in mice to try to identify their role in muscle development and disease, only to find that each of the resulting knockouts had no discernible differences from wildtype individuals.
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