09
March
2015
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01:04
Asia/Singapore

Zebrafish may be key to beating osteoporosis

NUS researchers from the Dept of Biological Sciences are using tiny fish like zebrafish and medaka to understand more about human diseases. Among them are Prof Manfred Schartl, NUSS Professor, who is using zebrafish and medaka to study skin cancer; Assoc Prof Christoph Winkler who is studying to the ability of zebrafish to rebuild itself to find out how to beat osteoporosis; and Assoc Prof Gong Zhiyuan who uses zebrafish to study liver cancer.