Monday, August 31, 2009

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HTTP:: New Way of Cloning Zebrafish Devised
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The field of human health research is heavily reliant on the usual monkeys and lab rats, but other animals are used for assessing disease development or drug efficiency as well. Among them are the small fruit fly and the zebra fish. The latter was cloned several times over the last years, but through complex and expensive methods. Now, scientists from the Michigan State University (MSU) have developed a new way of doing this that is both cheaper and more effective than the previous method. According to a paper published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Methods, for the past 20 years, zebrafish have served as animal models for analyzing human development, as well as defects that may occur at birth. “After the mouse, it is the most commonly used vertebrate in genetic studies. It is used in cancer research and cardiovascular research because they have many of the same genes we have,” MSU Professor of Animal Science Jose Cibelli, one of the co-authors on the new !
study, says. Over more recent times, the zebrafish has been used for more complex analyses. For instance, a number of studies has focused on the way certain groups of cells function within the body, and the animal of choice for viewing this was the small fish. With the growing number of uses experts have for it, cloning the animal has b...
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