Roger Highfield, Science Editor for the Telegraph (UK) writes: [link]
Scientists have created ghostly transparent fish to make human biology clearer. The feat has been achieved with zebrafish are genetically similar to humans and are already in widespread use as models for human biology and disease.
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The classic method for studying human diseases in animals is to allow the animal to get the disease, kill and dissect the animal, then ask, "what happened?" But in cancer and other fast-changing processes that traverse the body, this method is bound to miss something. "It's like taking a photograph when you need a video," says White.
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White named the new breed "casper", after the ghost.
Wouldn't that gene be pretty freaky to find passed down in some mutants in AtB? Actually this gives me a great idea for a Mad Scientist villain. Someone like a Splicer from Rifts who's messing with mutants and then tossing them back in the wild to see how they react or how the environment reacts to them.
I'll have to work on that.
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