Little Fish, Big Science
Monday, February 15, 2010 - 17:29
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- The zebrafish population at Duke is about to boom. It turns out those puny, striped fish (they get their name honestly) that dart around many a household aquarium are ideal specimens for unraveling disease. New Duke faculty member Nico Katsanis thinks that zebrafish may hold the key to tackling some of the biggest obstacles facing genome scientists today.