In their study, to be published in the online edition
of the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences during the week
of Jan. 26 - 30, researchers from Fukui Prefectural University in Obama, Japan, and the National
Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), which is
part of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH),
describe the innovative techniques they used to produce genetically modified zebrafish using sperm cells grown under laboratory, or «in vitro,»
conditions.