A Humble Aquarium Fish May be the Key to New Therapies for Birth Defects

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A normal wildtype zebrafish embryo is shown above an embryo with the calamity mutation. The calamity mutant impairs so many aspects of normal development that it falls apart in about two days. Source: Solnica-Krezel Laboratory
A normal, wildtype zebrafish embryo is shown above an embryo with the calamity mutation. The calamity mutant impairs so many aspects of normal development that it falls apart in about two days. Source: Solnica-Krezel Laboratory

A humble aquarium fish may be the key to finding therapies capable of preventing the structural birth defects that account for one out of three infant deaths in the United States today.


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