Ó³»­´«Ã½

The zebrafish has emerged as one of the most commonly used organisms in scientific research. They are genetically malleable, have transparent embryonic bodies, develop rapidly and are the most complex vertebrate that can be used for large-scale screening –a combination that makes zebrafish a relatively easy-to-screen model for human disease. has upgraded the zebrafish model’s status to really-fast-and-easy-to-screen.

In case you missed it, I want to draw your attention to an that aired on July 12: Charlie Rose dedicated that show to the "ten year anniversary" of the announcement that the human genome draft had been completed.

The 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology () ended today, wrapping up three days of lectures and posters presented by some of the world’s finest computational and molecular biologists, mathematicians, computer scientists and statisticians.