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Research in comparative medicine is invaluable for the overall medical research enterprise and for the improvements of animal health. With technological advances, many new fields are emerging in comparative medicine, including:
- Comparative genetics, which aims to develop reliable molecular markers of specific genetic traits to identify carrier and affected animals.
- Genome and phenome research that identifies specific genotypes associated with phenotypes.
- Genetically engineered animal models.
- Biomaterial developed to treat human and animal diseases.
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Integrative Research at the Bond Life Sciences Center
The Bond Life Sciences Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia opened its doors in September of 2004. The interdisciplinary research agenda in the Bond Center is being driven by advances in molecular and cell biology, genetics, bioinformatics and engineering, and particularly by the unifying concept of genetic interrelationships among all organisms. These concepts have emerged from studies on the mapping, sequencing and functioning of genes from humans, animals, plants and microorganisms. There are approximately 30 faculty investigators with their research teams now in residence in the Bond Center.
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