The way Filipinas love to eat fish heads and eyes they will love this one.
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Taiwan scientists accidentally develop two-headed fish
Taiwanese scientists say they have inadvertently developed a two-headed fish.
They genetically engineered the two-headed fluorescent zebrafish during studies into muscular dystrophy.
Experts from the Academia Sinica put a gene that causes muscle death into 200 zebrafish embryos.
One of them unexpectedly developed 24 hours later into the two-headed fish, which has two hearts.
Researchers believe it's the first time such a zebrafish has been documented anywhere in the world.
Huang Chang-jen, an associate research fellow, who created the fish, said: "You can say they are actually a big zebrafish and a small one sharing a body."
Huang hopes the research results will be used to develop drugs to cure muscular dystrophy, reports the Taipei Times.
Story filed: 14:56 Friday 16th January 2004
