Glowing zebrafish, like this one, may provide insight into the spread of human leukemia and other cancers in which a gene called MYC promotes cell growth. Researchers fused the mouse version of MYC to a gene encoding a fluorescent-green protein and inserted the combination into zebrafish DNA. They injected this DNA into embryos to create lines of fish in which the gene is active in some immune cells.
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