Zebrafish: A tiny fish with big research impact
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Grzegorz Siwicki
17.05.2018 16:29
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Zebrafish: A tiny fish with big research impact
Warsaw's Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, which is quietly celebrating its 20th birthday, has for six years been studying the zebrafish, a small fish that has proven to be immensely important to research into diseases and processes in humans.
A female specimen of a zebrafish (Danio rerio) breed with fantails. Photo: Marrabbio2 [Public domain], Wikimedia Commons
The institute’s director, Prof. Jacek Kuźnicki, tells Elżbieta Krajewska about how scientists discovered the research potential of the zebrafish.