Who would have guessed that zebrafish brains are similar enough to work as a model for human brains for certain types of research. Research being conducted by Dr. Hazel Sive at MIT utilizes zebrafish with certain genes knocked out one at a time to begin to better understand how the equivalent genes in humans known to be associated with autism effect brain development. Read more about it at psychcentral.com here:
http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/06/20/zebrafish-to-man-tracking-the-genetics-of-autism/40410.html
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