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Meet Casper – The first See-Through fish hybrid made for real-time cancer viewing
Scientists are really pushing the envelope on this one. Now they can watch and see how cancer really effects the body. It may only be a fish, but as the report says the Zebrafish is genetically similar to the biology of humans. I applaud them on the idea, if all we have to go on for cures for cancer is injecting mice over and over again to see how they react, this comes as a beacon of light to many.
They injected this little guy with a fluorescent melanoma tumor and found that cancer spreads in as little as 5 days through out the body. But what was most interesting about the article was how the cancer instantly moved from where it was injected to specific parts of the body, namely the skin. It is still unclear why it does, but it seems to have a set course that it spreads to, and it is not random at all.
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Scientists are breeding zebrafish with see-through bodies in order to make studying disease processes easier, including the spread of cancer.
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