The Incredible Shrinking Man

In most genetics research, Homo sapiens is represented by small fish like Danio rerio (zebrafish)  and Oryzias latipes (Japanese rice fish). Both are important model organisms, representing man in developmental genetics, neurophysiology and biomedicine. When we tinker with genes what happens to the fish is most likely to happen to us as well. If the [...]

In the introduction of this 1991 research paper by the National Research Council it states: “Like computers, livestock for use in developing countries should be getting smaller and becoming more “personal”. Conventional “mainframes”, such as cattle, are to large for the world’s poorest people; they require too much space and expense. “Miniframes”, such as the [...]