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Flaws emerge in modeling human genetic diseases in animals

  • Written by Gage Crump, Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California
imageThis confocal microscope image shows the face of a week-old zebrafish.Peter Fabian and Gage Crump, CC BY-NC

My lab, based at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, uses zebrafish to model human birth defects affecting the face. When I tell people this, they are often skeptical that fish biology has any relevance to human...

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