Zebrafish Enables Cell Regeneration Studies To Help Understand, Treat Human Disease

One aquarium fish’s uncanny ability to regenerate essentially any cell type has given scientists a way to mimic cell loss that occurs in diseases such as Parkinson’s and diabetes then watch how the fish make more of them.”What we are pinning everything on is the idea that humans also have this capacity, but it’s sort of locked up,” says Dr. Jeff S. Mumm, biologist at the Medical College of Georgia.Dr. Mumm, along with his partner in science and life, Dr.

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Filed under: Parkinson's Disease on April 2nd, 2008