IISER Mohali researchers have found that zebrafish did overcome the challenges posed by reduced visibility in turbid waters after a month of acclimatisation. They show zebrafish use visual cues to navigate to foraging sites especially when turbidity is high and visibility is low. Turbid to extremely turbid water conditions are quite common in areas where … Continue reading IISER Mohali finds zebrafish use landmarks for navigation
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IGIB team partially reverses a rare disease
Researchers at IGIB have demonstrated that zebrafish can be used an animal model to study Rubinstein Taybi Syndrome (RSTS) in humans. They were able to partially reverse the disorder using a tiny portion of the Ep300a protein, and also by using two small molecules. Researchers at Delhi’s Institute of Genomics & Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB) have … Continue reading IGIB team partially reverses a rare disease
Indian researchers turn to zebrafish to study microvillus inclusion disease
Indian researchers have finally found an ideal animal model to study microvillus inclusion disease (MVID) that may affect children born out of consanguineous marriages and to screen potential drugs to treat the disease. Currently, children with MVID disease have no treatment and mostly die premature as babies as they suffer from malabsorption of nutrients and … Continue reading Indian researchers turn to zebrafish to study microvillus inclusion disease
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