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Title: Filipinas will love this.... Post by: Stephen on January 16, 2004, 05:00:00 AM The way Filipinas love to eat fish heads and eyes they will love this one.
+++++ 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.
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