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A feature in the Worcester Telegram and Gazette explores how researchers at UMass Medical School are using the tiny zebrafish to answer groundbreaking questions about basic biological mechanisms controlling development and disease. Answers to these questions may one day lead to potential new treatments for a host of vascular, genetic and neurological diseases.
Nathan Lawson, PhD, associate professor of molecular medicine, Charles G. Sagerstrom, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology, Craig Ceol, PhD, assistant professor of molecular medicine, and Scot Wolfe, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry & molecular pharmacology and molecular medicine, discuss their respective research and how the zebrafish’s unique attributes, such as the melanocytes that give the fish’s distinctive stripes their dark color, are helping to answer these important biological questions.
Read the full story in the Telegram & Gazette:
Zebrafish key to cure?
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