The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has kicked off its Knockout Mouse Project (KOMP), a massive effort to delete over a third of the genes in the mouse genome.

• 美国国家健康研究所已经启动了“敲除老鼠计划”（KOMP）,这是一项工作量巨大的研究，期望能够敲除掉老鼠基因组中超过三分之一的基因。