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Mutant yeast on drugs

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Analyzing drug-treated and mutant yeast cells with the new tools of genomics enables the identification of drug targets and should improve the odds of developing useful therapeutics ( pages 1293–1301 ).

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Lockhart, D. Mutant yeast on drugs. Nat Med 4, 1235–1236 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/3212

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