Move over, guinea pigs… There’s a menagerie of fauna that have contributed to helped researchers gain some novel insight into treating human disease. Here are just a few of these amazing animals:
Jellyfish
The glow of these brainless beauties has been found to help with tumor imaging - te bioluminescence of jellyfish tentacles has inspired technology that can detect cancer, microbes and viruses, according to science. Using a green fluorescent protein called GFP that’s found in crystal jellyfish, proteins associated with cancer and other disease can be tagged and tracked in small animals.
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