{"id":1097,"date":"2017-02-17T15:56:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2017-10-15T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:20:07","slug":"zebrafish-make-a-big-splash-in-arizona-medical-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Zebrafish Make a Big Splash in Arizona Medical Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1099\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1099\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/434139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1099 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/John-Collins-crop-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Nicholas Gerbis.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mammals might seem like better human stand-ins than a minnow&#8217;s striped cousin, but zebrafish resemble us\u00a0in surprising and useful ways. But zebrafish also offer practical advantages over other model species: They\u2019re cheap, hardy, breed like rabbits on Viagra, and their skin can be made transparent.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about how Arizona researchers are using zebrafish in their research, read\/listen to my full story at KJZZ\u2019s Arizona Science Desk:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/science.kjzz.org\/node\/434139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tiny Fish Makes A Big Splash In Arizona Medical Research<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mammals might seem like better human stand-ins than a minnow&#8217;s striped cousin, but zebrafish resemble us\u00a0in surprising and useful ways. But zebrafish also offer practical advantages over other model species: They\u2019re cheap, hardy, breed like rabbits on Viagra, and their skin can be made transparent. To find out more about how Arizona researchers are using &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=1097\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zebrafish Make a Big Splash in Arizona Medical Research<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,84,82,4,121,67,475,3,207],"tags":[1193,157,1201,1200,1205,1204,25,1203,1206,1178,1202],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biochemistry","category-genetics","category-health","category-history","category-imaging","category-medicine","category-neuroscience-science","category-science","category-weird","tag-arizona-state-university","tag-cancer","tag-encephalopathy","tag-epilepsy","tag-ernst-haeckel","tag-haiyong-han","tag-nature","tag-northern-arizona-university","tag-sampath-rangasamy","tag-tgen","tag-university-of-arizona"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1326,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}