zebrafish

Daylight Boosts Immune System’s Ability to Fight Infections: Study

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In a new study, University of Auckland scientist Christopher Hall and his colleagues focused on neutrophils, a type of white blood cell that play a key role in antibacterial immunity. Yi Du et al. identified a light-responsive cell-intrinsic timer that controls time-of-day variations in antibacterial activity. Image credit: Summerstock. The study authors used zebrafish as … Read more

Genetic mutation that results in vision loss named after Irish poet

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Researchers from the University College Dublin (UCD) Conway Institute have described a genetic mutation that causes major visual problems in zebrafish. Writing in the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Journal, scientists described how zebrafish with a mutation in the emc1 gene had severe visual impairments. Zebrafish with this genetic abnormality had a thinner … Read more