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How zebrafish are leading to new discoveries in kidney function

dr. dolittle | August 3, 2015

I came across this neat video from Mayo Clinic researcher Dr. Michael Romero, a comparative physiologist interested in how the kidneys work. In this video he describes discoveries made in zebrafish that relate to human kidney function:

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