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. 2025 Nov;68(11):3410-3412.
doi: 10.1007/s11427-024-2936-y. Epub 2025 Jul 2.

WNT2/2B double homologous knockout blocks lung development and formation in pigs

Shuangjie Tian #  1   2 , Ruojun Zong #  1   2 , Ying Zhang #  3   4 , Qiang Liu  5 , Lina Wang  1   2 , Yanfang Wang  6 , Jianguo Zhao  7   8   9   10
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WNT2/2B double homologous knockout blocks lung development and formation in pigs

Shuangjie Tian et al. Sci China Life Sci. 2025 Nov.
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Compliance and ethics. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. All experiments involving pigs were approved by the institutional animal care and use committee of the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (approval no. IOZ-IACUC-2024-208).

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