Using fish to illuminate the architecture of inherited disease
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 - 07:02
in Biology & Nature
A research team led by scientists from the Duke University Medical Centre 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 analyse the function of every known mutation in an inherited syndrome called BBS, Bardet-Biedl Syndrome...