We sleep to rest and regain our strength, and the benefits of a good night's sleep seems obvious, but what is it about sleep that improves our brain performance, at the cellular levels, that's an old debate to which a new study tried to put an end.The opinions are divided into two camps: one believes that s... |
11 January 2011
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A team of investigators from the Berkeley Lab managed to get a unique insight into how the brain coordinates stimuli inputs from the body to make split-second decisions, and react, when following an object of interest. The work was conducted on zebrafish, which are oftentimes used as animal proxies for humans in such... |
30 October 2010
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The field of human health research is heavily reliant on the usual monkeys and lab rats, but other animals are used for assessing disease development or drug efficiency as well. Among them are the small fruit fly and the zebra fish. The latter was cloned several times over the last years, but through complex and expe... |
31 August 2009
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Experts at the University of Pittsburgh report an amazing discovery, which could lead to many potential applications in the field of medicine. Using zebrafish as model animals, they managed to accurately pinpoint an enzyme inhibitor that allows for a large increase in the number of progenitor cells inside the develop... |
6 July 2009
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