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A Conversation With Steven A. Farber: To Teach Genetics, Zebra Fish Go to School
Steven A. Farber heads a nonprofit organization that aims to bring science to inner-city schools. Their tool of choice is the zebra fish.Zebra fish used to study blindness
WEST LAYFAYETTE, Ind., April 3 (UPI) -- Experiments with zebra fish are helping identify genes linked to retinal diseases that cause blindness, a Purdue University scientist said.Study of marine snail leads to new insights into long-term memory
... in tidal waters off the coast. Glanzman is also studying learning at the synaptic level in the zebra fish. As a graduate student at Stanford University, Glanzman began studying cognitive ...Consortium develops new method to manipulate genetic material
... ZFNs can alter genes with high efficiency in cells from plants or model organisms like fruit flies, roundworms, and zebra fish, and in human cells," said J. Keith Joung, M.D., Ph ...Researchers devise means to create blood by identifying earliest stem cells
... scientists suspected they existed in humans, however, because they have been found in mice and zebra fish. To find the blood stem cell, Zambidis' team grew human embryonic stem cells in ...Sea urchin yields a key secret of biomineralization
... . A similar amorphous-to-crystalline transition has since been observed in adult sea urchin spines, in mollusk shells, in zebra fish bones and in tooth enamel. The resulting biominerals are ...Genes may predict vascular malformation
... formation in the fast-developing and conveniently transparent zebra fish embryo. They identified sucrose non- ... blood vessels. In the second paper, similar zebra fish embryo studies revealed that Dusp ...Researchers identify the gene responsible for a rare form of congenital anemia
... of Pathology, the research team showed a direct role of the gene in hemoglobin synthesis in zebra fish. The gene identified is part of a gene family involved in the transport of nutrients to and ...The sound of light: Innovative technology shatters the barriers of modern light microscopy
... allowing whole-body visualization of adult zebra fish. To achieve this feat, Prof. Ntziachristos ... team made light audible. They illuminated the fish from multiple angles using flashes of laser light ...MSU researchers improve zebrafish cloning methods
... because they have many of the same genes we have." For more than 20 years, Cibelli said, zebra fish have also served as an excellent model for understanding normal development and birth defects. ...How HIV cripples immune cells
... different signal paths in the cell by Nef The researchers examined the movement of cells in living zebra fish embryos and were able to show that cell mobility is inhibited by the HIV Nef protein. As ...Learning How Animals Regenerate Body Parts
Salk Institute scientists found that dual-purpose switches controlled many of the genes activated in the regenerating cells of a zebra fish’s tail.
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