Using fish to illuminate the architecture of inherited disease
Monday, May 24, 2010 - 19:20
in Biology & Nature
Durham, N.C. -- A research team led by scientists from the Duke University Medical Center has developed a way to simultaneously look at the effects of 125 mutations occurring on 14 different genes. They used zebrafish as a model to analyze the function of every known mutation in an inherited syndrome called BBS, Bardet-Biedl Syndrome.