Sentences with phrase «help zebrafish»

A recent study by Duke University uncovered the genes that help zebrafish repair damaged tissue.
Researchers discovered a gene also found in humans helps zebrafish convert water motion into electrical impulses that are sent to the brain for perception.

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Human tumor cells (red) growing in a zebrafish embryo may help doctors choose how to treat cancer patients.
Researchers have identified a protein in zebrafish that plays a role in helping heal major spinal cord injuries.
She commented: «Our previous research to validate zebrafish as a model for epilepsy put us in a good position to be able to help the EuroEPINOMICS consortium investigate the function of CHD2.
Zebrafish with very weak muscles helped scientists decode the elusive genetic mutation responsible for Native American myopathy, a rare, hereditary muscle disease that afflicts Native Americans in North Carolina.
Because these genes have the same function in zebrafish, humans, and other tetrapods, it should help researchers further understand how our ancestors left the water and evolved limbs from fins.
The shared gene allows zebrafish to sense water flow direction, and it also helps cells inside the human ear sense a range of sounds.
GENE SCENE Zebrafish experiments that didn't go as planned may help researchers find genes that can fill in for others in a pinch.
A zebrafish model of Dravet syndrome, a severe form of pediatric epilepsy, may help scientists quickly find drugs for the devastating disease.
«Fish eyes to help understand human inherited blindness: Discovery of a gene in zebrafish that triggers congenital blindness could lead to a suitable cure for similar disease in humans..»
Tobin, who helped to develop the zebrafish as a model of TB, decided to use the system to study the blood vessels associated with granulomas.
On this website you can learn about how zebrafish can help us understand human diseases and how to develop treatments for them.
Studies with Zebrafish embryos help scientists understand how whole organisms develop from the single - celled embryo.
10/23/2007 Transparent Zebrafish Help Researchers Track Breast Cancer What if doctors could peer through a patient's skin and see a cancer tumor growing?
One postdoc in Peterson's lab, for example, is using zebrafish to study opioid addiction, trying to identify genes that heighten drug - seeking behavior and thus could be useful targets for helping human addicts.
The Washington researchers have discovered some of the genes that allow zebrafish to regrow their tail fins, which could one day help humans regrow damaged body parts.
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